Stories, Identities, and Political Change
by Charles Tilly
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Author: Charles TillyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-01
ISBN: 0742518825
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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- ISBN13: 9780742518827
- Condition: New
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Book Review: relational analysis; unique perspectives
Summary: 5 Stars
In this collection of essays, Tilly tackles a range of topics from a relational analysis perspective. He clearly states his disagreements with social scientists' tendencies in other main schools of thought (methodological individualism, phenomenological individualism, holists) to try to put our experiences into what he calls "standard stories" and offers often startling suggestions on alternative ways at looking at social processes with the goal of being better able to explain our social world.
Despite densely packed concepts and ideas, the writing is clear and crisp with tinges of a caustic wit, especially in some of the earlier chapters in which he is critiquing other scholars' works. Well worth reading for those studying social sciences or who have an academic interest in power, social movements, and identity in the modern world.
Summary of Stories, Identities, and Political Change
An award-winning sociologist, Charles Tilly has been equally influential in explaining politics, history, and how societies change.Tilly?s newest book tackles fundamental questions about the nature of personal, political, and national identities and their linkage to big events?revolutions, social movements, democratization, and other processes of political and social change. Tilly focuses in this book on the role of stories, as means of creating personal identity, but also as explanations, true or false, of political tensions and realities. He uses well-known examples from around the world?the Zapatista rebellion, Hindu-Muslim conflicts, and other examples in which nationalism and other forms of group identity are politically pivotal. Tilly writes with the immediacy of a journalist, but the profound insight of a great theorist.
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