SOC 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Instrumental And Value Rationality, Lifeworld, New Social Movements
31 Dec 2018
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Charles tilly(1929-2008) american sociologist, political scientist, and historian who wrote on the relationship between politics and society. Influenced by marxism and at first did subscribe to marx structural arguments. Then shifted thinking to look at war-making- state-building and the power of bargaining". Proposed the polity model" of relations between rulers/insiders/ outsiders. In opposition to individualistic, dispositional analyses of contentious politics, tilly"s work emphasizes how dynamics of social protest are tied to their political, social and economic context. Where previous studies of collective violence had argued their atypical nature, tilly amassed a battery of evidence to show that they typically arise from the organization of normally non-violent political contentions. Tilly"s work has had considerable influence on the study of social movements. Charles tilly was initially reluctant to tackle social movements. I avoided writing about social movements for about twenty years because i felt that the term had become swollen and imprecise, he said in a 2007 interview.
