Authors:Doug McAdam, Sidney Tarrow, Charles Tilly, Charles Ti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: contentious, politics, studies, cambridge, contention, dynamics
Number of Pages: 410
Published: 2001-09-10
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 0521011876
ISBN-13: 9780521011877

Dissatisfied with the compartmentalization of studies concerning strikes, wars, revolutions, social movements, and other forms of political struggle, McAdam, Tarrow, and Tilly identify causal mechanisms and processes that recur across a wide range of contentious politics. Critical of the static, single-actor models (including their own) that have prevailed in the field, they shift the focus of analysis to dynamic interaction. Doubtful that large, complex series of events such as revolutions and social movements conform to general laws, they break events into smaller episodes, then identify re

Author: Charles Tilly
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: inequality, durable
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 1999-09-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520221702
ISBN-13: 9780520221703

Charles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality. How, he asks, do long-lasting, systematic inequalities in life chances arise, and how do they come to distinguish members of different socially defined categories of persons? Exploring representative paired and unequal categories, such as male/female, black/white, and citizen/noncitizen, Tilly argues that the basic causes of these and similar inequalities greatly resemble one another. In contrast to contemporary analyses that explain inequality case by case, this account is

Author: Charles Tilly
Publisher: Paradigm Publisher
Keywords: ties, social, boundaries, identities
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2006-01-30
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1594511322
ISBN-13: 9781594511325

The newest book by award-winning social scientist Charles Tilly offers a distinctive, coherent account of social processes and individuals’ connections to their larger social and political worlds. It is novel in demonstrating the connections between inequality and de-democratization, between identities and social inequality, and between citizenship and identities. The book treats interpersonal transactions as the basic elements of larger social processes. Tilly shows how personal interactions compound into identities, create and transform social boundaries, and accumulate into durable so

Author: Charles Tilly
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: democracy
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 2007-04-02
List price: $20.99
ISBN-10: 0521701538
ISBN-13: 9780521701532

Democracy identifies the general processes causing democratization and de-democratization at a national level across the world over the last few hundred years. It singles out integration of trust networks into public politics, insulation of public politics from categorical inequality, and suppression of autonomous coercive power centers as crucial processes. Through analytic narratives and comparisons of multiple regimes, mostly since World War II, this book makes the case for recasting current theories of democracy, democratization, and de-democratization.Book DescriptionDemocracy identifies

Author: Charles Tilly
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: britain, contention, popular
Number of Pages: 476
Published: 1998-07-14
List price: $83.00
ISBN-10: 0674689801
ISBN-13: 9780674689800

Between 1750 and 1840 ordinary British people abandoned such time-honored forms of protest as collective seizures of grain, the sacking of buildings, public humiliation, and physical abuse in favor of marches, petition drives, public meetings, and other sanctioned routines of social movement politics. The change created--perhaps for the first time anywhere--mass participation in national politics. Charles Tilly is the first to address the depth and significance of the transmutations in popular collective action during this period. As he unravels the story of thousands of popular struggles an

Author: Charles Tilly
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: blame, credit
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2008-04-21
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0691135789
ISBN-13: 9780691135786

In his eye-opening book Why?, world-renowned social scientist Charles Tilly exposed some startling truths about the excuses people make and the reasons they give. Now he’s back with further explorations into the complexities of human relationships, this time examining what’s really going on when we assign credit or cast blame. Everybody does it, but few understand the hidden motivations behind it. With his customary wit and dazzling insight, Tilly takes a lively and thought-provoking look at the ways people fault and applaud each other and themselves. The stories he gathers in Cred

Author: Charles Tilly
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation Publications
Keywords: comparisons, huge, processes, large, structures
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1989-06
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0871548801
ISBN-13: 9780871548801