Identities, Boundaries, and Social Ties [Paperback]

Charles Tilly (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1594511322 | ISBN-13: 978-1594511325 | Publication Date: January 30, 2006

The newest book by award-winning social scientist Charles Tilly offers a distinctive, coherent account of social processes and individuals' connections to their larger social and political worlds. It is novel in demonstrating the connections between inequality and de-democratization, between identities and social inequality, and between citizenship and identities. The book treats interpersonal transactions as the basic elements of larger social processes. Tilly shows how personal interactions compound into identities, create and transform social boundaries, and accumulate into durable social ties. He also shows how individual and group dispositions result from interpersonal transactions. Resisting the focus on deliberated individual action, the book repeatedly gives attention to incremental effects, indirect effects, environmental effects, feedback, mistakes, repairs, and unanticipated consequences. Social life is complicated. But, the book shows, social life becomes comprehensible once you know how to look at it.

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About the Author

Until his recent death, Charles Tilly was Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University and is the author most recently of Explaining Social Processes (Paradigm 2008).

Product Details

• Paperback: 284 pages
• Publisher: Paradigm Publishers (January 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594511322
• ISBN-13: 978-1594511325
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #804,341 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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