TILLY, Charles <br/><br/>
Big structures large processes huge comparisons 

 - New York :  Russell Sage Foundation,  1984 
 - 176 p. 
 - Russell Sage Foundation 75 th Aniversary Series .
<br/><br/> - 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 postulates  - Will 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 foudation  - 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 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0871548801 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ciências Sociais<br/>Sociedade<br/>Ação Social<br/>Processo<br/>Análise Comparativa