Charles Tilly

(noun)

(1929 – 2008) An American sociologist, political scientist and historian who wrote about the relationship between politics and society.

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Examples of Charles Tilly in the following topics:

  • The Stages of Social Movements

    • Charles Tilly defines social movements as a series of contentious performances, displays and campaigns by which ordinary people make collective claims on others.
    • For Tilly, social movements are a major vehicle for ordinary people's participation in public politics.
    • Blumer, Mauss, and Tilly have described the different stages that social movements often pass through (see ).
    • Discuss the process and purpose of social movements, defined by Blumer, Mauss and Tilly

  • State Formation

    • Sociologist Charles Tilly is the best known theorist in this tradition.
    • Tilly examined political, social, and technological change in Europe from the Middle Ages to the present and attempted to explain the unprecedented success of the nation-state as the dominant form of state on Earth.
    • In other words, instead of asking (like Wittfogel) where the very first states came from, Tilly asked where the types of states with which we're most familiar came from, and why they became so common.

  • Bibliography

    • Hubbell, Charles H. 1965.
    • Tilly, Charles. 1988.

  • Stages in Social Movements

    • Blumer, Mauss, and Tilly, have described different stages social movements often pass through.

  • Primary Groups

    • The concept of the primary group was introduced by Charles Cooley, a sociologist from the Chicago School of sociology, in his book Social Organization: A Study of the Larger Mind (1909).
    • The concept of the primary group was introduced by Charles Cooley, a sociologist from the Chicago School of sociology, in his book, "Social Organization: A Study of the Larger Mind" (1909).

  • Social Change

    • The different stages of social movements, as adapted from Blumer (1969), Mauss (1975) and Tilly (1978)

  • Cooley

    • In 1902, Charles Horton Cooley created the concept of the looking-glass self, which explored how identity is formed.
    • The looking-glass self is a social psychological concept created by Charles Horton Cooley in 1902.

  • Secondary Groups

    • The distinction between primary and secondary groups was originally proposed by Charles Cooley.

  • Primary and Secondary Groups

    • The distinction between primary and secondary groups was originally proposed by Charles Horton Cooley.

  • Animals and Culture

    • Charles Darwin first attempted to find the existence of imitation in animals when trying to prove his theory that the human mind had evolved from that of lower beings.