Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1. Intellectual Equipment; Worrying About Social Change; Thinkers Face Change; What Was Happening?; Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons; What to Do; Chapter 2. Four Pernicious Postulates; False Principles; Society Is a Thing Apart; Mental Events Cause Social Behavior; ""Social Change"" Is a Coherent Phenomenon; Stage Theories; Chapter 3. Four More Pernicious Postulates; Differentiation Is a Progressive Master Process; Differentiation Versus Integration; Change, Strain, Disorder; Illegitimate Versus Legitimate Force; Chapter 4. Comparing.
  • Eradicating Pernicious PostulatesWill Total History Save Us?; The Case for Huge (But Not Stupendous) Comparisons; No Safety in Numbers; Ways of Seeing; Looking at Comparisons; Chapter 5. Individualizing Comparisons; The Will to Individualize; Kings or People?; Cracks in the Foundation; Chapter 6. Universalizing Comparisons; The Decline of Natural History; Models of Revolution; Theda Skocpol's Revolutions; Chapter 7. Finding Variation; How and When to Look for Variation; Barrington Moore Compares; Chapter 8. Encompassing Comparisons; Encompassing the World; Stein Rokkan Encompasses.
  • Rokkan's ""Conceptual Maps of Europe""What's Wrong? What Should We Do About It?; Chapter 9. Conclusions; The Tasks at Hand; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index.