Explaining Social Processes

✍ Scribed by Charles Tilly

Publisher: Paradigm Publishers; Routledge
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 224
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
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
Part V. Conclusion
Chapter 16: Epilogue
Index
About the Author

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