Troubles with Mechanisms: Problems of the 'Mechanistic Turn' in Historical Sociology and Social History.
This paper discusses the prospect of the "new social history" guided by the recent work of Charles Tilly on the methodology of social and historical explanation. Tilly advocates explanation by mechanisms as the alternative to the covering law explanation. Tilly's proposals are considered to be the a...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Philosophy of History Vol. 1; no. 2; pp. 160 - 201 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
May2007
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