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"Big structures, large processes, huge comparisons" is published by Russell Sage Foundation in 1984 - New York, it has 176 pages and the language of the book is English.


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  • Title: ➤  Big structures, large processes, huge comparisons
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 176
  • Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
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  • Publish Location: New York

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  • Pagination: xii, 176 p. :

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"Big structures, large processes, huge comparisons" Table Of Contents:

  • 1- Intellectual Equipment
  • 2- Worrying About Social Change
  • 3- Thinkers Face Change
  • 4- What Was Happening?
  • 5- Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons
  • 6- What to Do
  • 7- Four Pernicious Postulates
  • 8- False Principles
  • 9- Society Is a Thing Apart
  • 10- Mental Events Cause Social Behavior
  • 11- "Social Change" Is a Coherent Phenomenon
  • 12- Stage Theories
  • 13- Four More Pernicious Postulates
  • 14- Differentiation Is a Progressive Master Process
  • 15- Differentiation Versus Integration
  • 16- Change, Strain, Disorder
  • 17- Illegitimate Versus Legitimate Force
  • 18- Comparing
  • 19- Eradicating Pernicious Postulates
  • 20- Will Total History Save Us?
  • 21- The Case for Huge (But Not Stupendous) Comparisons
  • 22- No Safety in Numbers
  • 23- Ways of Seeing
  • 24- Looking at Comparisons
  • 25- Individualizing Comparisons
  • 26- The Will to Individualize
  • 27- Kings or People?
  • 28- Cracks in the Foundation
  • 29- Universalizing Comparisons
  • 30- The Decline of Natural History
  • 31- Models of Revolution
  • 32- Theda Skocpol's Revolutions
  • 33- Finding Variation
  • 34- How and When to Look for Variation
  • 35- Barrington Moor Compares
  • 36- Encompassing Comparisions
  • 37- Encompassing the World
  • 38- Stein Rokkan Encompasses
  • 39- Rokkan's "Conceptual Maps of Europe"
  • 40- What's Wrong? What Should We Do About It?
  • 41- Conclusions
  • 42- The Tasks at Hand
  • 43- Bibliography
  • 44- Acknowledgements
  • 45- Index

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Who do other people’s books behave like docile marionettes? Mine keep playing Pinocchio.

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Tilly argues for a shift in social sciences from individual to social relationships. Societies are not autonomous systems, and social inquiry should concentrate on relationships and activities. Inquiry into how societies form and change may may be local or transnational, and it may involve other relationships and activities. How such inquiry should be carried out is unclear, although there are several possible examples available.

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