Explaining Social Processes

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.