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Big structures, large processes, huge comparisons /
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Russell Sage Foundation,
©1984.
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| Series: | Russell Sage Foundation 75th anniversary series.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.