Contents
Worrying About Social Change
Thinkers Face Change
What Was Happening?
Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons
What to Do
False Principles
Society Is a Thing Apart
Mental Events Cause Social Behavior
"Social Change" Is a Coherent Phenomenon
Stage Theories
Differentiation Is a Progressive Master Process
Differentiation Versus Integration
Change, Strain, Disorder
Illegitimate Versus Legitimate Force
Eradicating Pernicious Postulates
Will Total History Save Us?
The Case for Huge (But Not Stupendous) Comparisons
No Safety in Numbers
Ways of Seeing
Looking at Comparisons
The Will to Individualize
Kings or People?
Cracks in the Foundation
The Decline of Natural History
Models of Revolution
Theda Skocpol's Revolutions
How and When to Look for Variation
Barrington Moore Compares
Encompassing the World
Stein Rokkan Encompasses
Rokkan's "Conceptual Maps of Europe"
What's Wrong? What Should We Do About It?
The Tasks at Hand
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index