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Charles Tilly's Interdisciplinary Influence

✍ Scribed by Craig Calhoun; Andreas Koller

Book ID
102287890
Publisher
Swiss Political Science Association
Year
2009
Tongue
German
Weight
222 KB
Volume
15
Category
Article
ISSN
1420-3529

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✦ Synopsis

Sociology without history resembles a Hollywood set: great scenes, sometimes brilliantly painted, with nothing and nobody behind them. Seen only as the science of the present or -worse yet -of the timeless, sociology misses its vocation to fix causation in time. It thereby vitiates its vital influence on historical thinking, its influence as the study of social mechanisms operating continuously in specific times and places (Tilly 2008c: 120).

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