224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Built upon decades of experience at the frontiers of history and social science, Charles Tilly's newest book offers innovative methods and approaches that are applicable in a wide range of disciplines: politics, sociology, anthropology, history, economics, and more. The book covers approaches to analysis ranging from interpersonal exchanges to world-historical changes-economic, political, and... Read more
PART I: Introduction Chapter 1: Method and Explanation PART II: Concepts and Observations Chapter 2: Systems, Dispositions, and Transactions in Social Analysis Chapter 3: Observations of Social Processes and Their Formal Representations Chapter 4: Even Catalogs as Theories Chapter 5: Iron City Blues Chapter 6: Why Read the Classics? PART III: Explanations and Comparisons Chapter 7: To Explain Political Processes Chapter 8: Means and Ends of Comparison in Macrosociology Chapter 9: Terror, Terrorism, and Terrorists Chapter 10: Linkers, Diggers, and Glossers in Social Analysis PART IV: Historical Social Analysis Chapter 11: History and Sociological Imagining Chapter 12: Historical Analysis of Political Processes Chapter 13: What Good Is Urban History? Chapter 14: Anglo-American Social History Since 1945 Chapter 15: Three Visions of History and Theory PART V: Conclusion Chapter 16: Epilogue
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Tilly, Charles
