Built upon decades of experience at the frontiers of history and
social science, Charles Tilly's newest book offers innovative
methods and approaches 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. Between an introduction and
a conclusion, the three central sections-Concepts and Observations,
Explanations and Comparisons, and Historical Analysis-move from
adequate observations and descriptions to explanations (with
special emphasis on systematic comparison as an aid to
explanation), then to applications in historical treatments of
social processes. Some of the chapters (for example "Iron City
Blues," which reflects on a book by S. N. Eisenstadt) present
critiques of particular pieces of work. Others (for example,
"Terror, Terrorism, Terrorists") clear up conceptual and
explanatory confusion in some current area of dispute. Most,
however, address substantial methodological problems in something
like the style of an advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate
course on social analysis. The book as a whole sums up broad
methodological conclusions from a lifetime of research at the
frontiers of history and social science.
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