Charles Tilly's Interdisciplinary Influence
Craig Calhoun
Essay · 2009 · Swiss Political Science Review
Abstract
Sociology without history resembles a Hollywood set: great scenes, sometimes brilliantly painted, with nothing and nobody behind them.Seen only as the science of the present or -worse yet -of the timeless, sociology misses its vocation to fix causation in time.It thereby vitiates its vital influence on historical thinking, its influence as the study of social mechanisms operating continuously in specific times and places (Tilly 2008c: 120).
Citation
Calhoun, C. (2009). Charles Tilly's Interdisciplinary Influence. Swiss Political Science Review. 15(2): 333-39.