ISBN:
9781610447720
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 176 Seiten)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Russell Sage Foundation 75th anniversary series
Parallel Title:
Print version Big structures, large processes, huge comparisons
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Tilly, Charles, 1929 - 2008 Big structures, large processes, huge comparisons
DDC:
303.4/072
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Sozialgeschichte
;
Social history Research
;
Social change Research
;
Social change ; Research
;
Social history ; Research
;
Electronic books
;
Sozialer Wandel
Abstract:
Contents -- Chapter 1. Intellectual Equipment -- Worrying About Social Change -- Thinkers Face Change -- What Was Happening? -- Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons -- What to Do -- Chapter 2. Four Pernicious Postulates -- False Principles -- Society Is a Thing Apart -- Mental Events Cause Social Behavior -- ""Social Change"" Is a Coherent Phenomenon -- Stage Theories -- Chapter 3. Four More Pernicious Postulates -- Differentiation Is a Progressive Master Process -- Differentiation Versus Integration -- Change, Strain, Disorder -- Illegitimate Versus Legitimate Force
Abstract:
Chapter 4. Comparing -- Eradicating Pernicious Postulates -- Will Total History Save Us? -- The Case for Huge (But Not Stupendous) Comparisons -- No Safety in Numbers -- Ways of Seeing -- Looking at Comparisons -- Chapter 5. Individualizing Comparisons -- The Will to Individualize -- Kings or People? -- Cracks in the Foundation -- Chapter 6. Universalizing Comparisons -- The Decline of Natural History -- Models of Revolution -- Theda Skocpol's Revolutions -- Chapter 7. Finding Variation -- How and When to Look for Variation -- Barrington Moore Compares -- Chapter 8. Encompassing Comparisons
Abstract:
Encompassing the World -- Stein Rokkan Encompasses -- Rokkan's ""Conceptual Maps of Europe"" -- What's Wrong? What Should We Do About It? -- Chapter 9. Conclusions -- The Tasks at Hand -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (Seiten 148-167) and index
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