Explaining Social Processes

Charles Tilly, Columbia University, is one of the premier sociologists of our time. Among his 50 highly influential books are Contentious Politics (Paradigm 2006) and Trust and Rule (Cambridge University Press 2005).

• 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; partV Conclusion; Chapter 16 Epilogue;