Identities, boundaries, and social ties

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Identities, boundaries, and social ties

Charles Tilly

Routledge, 2016

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Identities, boundaries, & social ties

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-256) and index

"First published 2005 by Paradigm Publishers"--T.p. verso

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Identities, Boundaries and Social Ties 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, it becomes comprehensible once you know how to look at it.

Table of Contents

  • Part I Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Ties That Bind ... and Bound
  • Part II Relational Mechanisms
  • Chapter 2 Violent Conflict, Social Ties, and Explanations of Social Processes
  • Chapter 3 Mechanisms in Political Processes
  • Chapter 4 Do Unto Others
  • Part III Inequality
  • Chapter 5 Durable Inequality
  • Chapter 6 Relational Origins of Inequality
  • Chapter 7 Changing Forms of Inequality
  • Chapter 8 Unequal Knowledge
  • Part IV Boundaries
  • Chapter 9 Social Boundary Mechanisms
  • Chapter 10 Chain Migration and Opportunity Hoarding
  • Chapter 11 Boundaries, Citizenship, and Exclusion
  • partV Political Boundaries
  • Chapter 12 Why Worry About Citizenship?
  • Chapter 13 Inequality, Democratization, and De-Democratization
  • Chapter 14 Political Identities in Changing Polities
  • Chapter 15 Invention, Diffusion, and Transformation of the Social Movement Repertoire

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