Explaining Social Processes

by Charles Tilly

Overview

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 social. He shows how a thoroughgoing relational account of social processes, coupled with the careful identification of causal mechanisms, illuminates variation and change in the ways people live at the small scale and the large.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317259886
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/03/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Tilly, Charles

Table of Contents

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 Event 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, 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; partV Conclusion; Chapter 16 Epilogue;