Explaining Social Processes

This book presents a meta-history of Anglo-American Social History Since 1945 by exploring the role of language, culture, and politics in the development of social attitudes and attitudes towards race and ethnicity.

Abstract

Built upon decades of experience at the frontiers of history and social science, Charles Tilly's newest book offers innovative methods and approaches that are applicable in a wide range of disciplines: politics, sociology, anthropology, history, economics, and more. The book covers approaches to analysis ranging from interpersonal exchanges to world-historical changes-economic, political, and social. He shows how a thoroughgoing relational account of social processes, coupled with the careful identification of causal mechanisms, illuminates variation and change in the ways people live at the small scale and the large.