Stories, Identities, and Political Change

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Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 - 257 sider
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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Introduction
3
Softcore Solipsism
15
The Trouble with Stories
25
Stein Rokkan and Political Identities
45
Political Identities in History
57
Micro Macro or Megrim?
69
Social Movements and Other Political Interactions
77
Voice in Contentious Politics
101
Power Top Down and Bottom Up
139
States and Nationalism in Europe 14921992
161
The Time of States
171
Processes and Mechanisms of Democratization
189
So What?
207
References
213
Index
245
About the Author

Contentious Conversation
111
Where Do Rights Come From?
123

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Om forfatteren (2002)

Social scientist Charles Tilly was born in Lombard, Illinois on May 27, 1929. He graduated from Harvard Univeristy with a bachelor's degree in 1950 and a docorate in sociology in 1958. He also studied at Oxford University and the Catholic University in Angers, France. During the Korean War, he served in the Navy. He taught sociology and political science at numerous univeristies including the University of Delaware, Harvard University, the University of Toronto, the University of Michigan and Columbia University. During his lifetime, he wrote 51 books and monographs and more than 600 scholoarly articles. He received numerous awards including the Albert O. Hirschman Award from the Social Science Research Council. He died from lymphoma on April 29, 2008.

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