Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons

Tilly, C. (1984). Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons. Sage.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1984

Link

https://archive.org/details/bigstructureslar0000till

Cited from

environmental_climate, history_historiography

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3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Comparative Method
  • … method: Tilly articulated a typology of comparative strategies (individualizing, universalizing, variation-finding) that accounts for most major uses in social science; Wickham reconstructed large-scale early medieval transformation by systematically comparing regional European trajectories across several centuries.

    This sourceArticulates a four-fold typology of comparative strategies — individualizing, universalizing, variation-finding, and encompassing — that accounts for most major uses in social science. (Citation-fix: the prior annotation about teleconnection reasoning across climate/economics/epidemiology was a copy-paste leftover; the book supports the typology claim attributed to it.)

• Microhistory vs. Macrohistory
  • Displays the general principle that observation-scale is part of the scientific apparatus, not an accident of convenience — a point Tilly (1984) generalizes through his typology of big structures, large processes, and huge comparisons.
• Teleconnection
  • The concept of teleconnection unifies reasoning across climate science, economics, epidemiology, sociology, and software engineering — placing it within the comparative-historical tradition Tilly (1984) defended in Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons, where structurally homologous patterns recur across distinct social and natural substrates.

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