Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons

Copywright......Page 3
Foreword......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Contents......Page 10
Worrying About Social Change......Page 12
Thinkers Face Change......Page 17
What Was Happening?......Page 18
Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons......Page 21
What to Do......Page 24
False Principles......Page 28
Society Is a Thing Apart......Page 31
Mental Events Cause Social Behavior......Page 37
"Social Change" Is a Coherent Phenomenon......Page 44
Stage Theories......Page 52
Differentiation Is a Progressive Master Process......Page 54
Differentiation Versus Integration......Page 61
Change, Strain, Disorder......Page 64
Illegitimate Versus Legitimate Force......Page 67
Eradicating Pernicious Postulates......Page 71
Will Total History Save Us?......Page 76
The Case for Huge (But Not Stupendous) Comparisons......Page 85
No Safety in Numbers......Page 87
Ways of Seeing......Page 91
Looking at Comparisons......Page 95
The Will to Individualize......Page 98
Kings or People?......Page 102
Cracks in the Foundation......Page 105
The Decline of Natural History......Page 108
Models of Revolution......Page 113
Theda Skocpol's Revolutions......Page 116
How and When to Look for Variation......Page 127
Barrington Moore Compares......Page 130
Encompassing the World......Page 136
Stein Rokkan Encompasses......Page 140
Rokkan's "Conceptual Maps of Europe"......Page 142
What's Wrong? What Should We Do About It?......Page 150
The Tasks at Hand......Page 155
Bibliography......Page 159
Acknowledgments......Page 180
Index......Page 182