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持久性不平等
为何同一祖籍的移民有从事相同职业的倾向？
男女就业的差异是否真的只是因为性别？
种族主义制度如何保证自身长久稳定？
我们所目睹或经历的不平等现象，真的是因为籍贯、性别、血统、智商、遗传、观念等个人因素吗？“21世纪社会学之父”查尔斯·蒂利在本书中告诉我们，普遍性的不平等现象需要从组织的角度来理解，参与者们创造出不平等的目的是实现对有价值资源的控制，而不平等现象虽然看似各不相同，却往往有着共同的起源和运作机制。本书理论结构简练，案例详实丰富，对持久性不平等现象作出了极富洞察力的解释。
男女就业的差异是否真的只是因为性别？
种族主义制度如何保证自身长久稳定？
我们所目睹或经历的不平等现象，真的是因为籍贯、性别、血统、智商、遗传、观念等个人因素吗？“21世纪社会学之父”查尔斯·蒂利在本书中告诉我们，普遍性的不平等现象需要从组织的角度来理解，参与者们创造出不平等的目的是实现对有价值资源的控制，而不平等现象虽然看似各不相同，却往往有着共同的起源和运作机制。本书理论结构简练，案例详实丰富，对持久性不平等现象作出了极富洞察力的解释。
334 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
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Charles Tilly
106 books133 followersCharles Tilly was an American sociologist, political scientist, and historian renowned for his pioneering contributions to the study of social change, state formation, and contentious politics. A prolific scholar, Tilly authored over 600 articles and more than 50 books, shaping disciplines ranging from sociology and history to political science. His research was grounded in large-scale, comparative historical analysis, exemplified by his influential works Coercion, Capital, and European States, Durable Inequality, and Dynamics of Contention.
Tilly began his academic career after earning his doctorate in sociology from Harvard University, where he studied under noted figures like George C. Homans and Barrington Moore Jr. He taught at several major institutions, including the University of Michigan, The New School, and ultimately Columbia University, where he held the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professorship of Social Science.
He developed a distinctive theoretical approach that rejected simplistic, static models of society, instead emphasizing dynamic processes and relational mechanisms. Tilly’s theories of state formation, particularly his provocative comparison of war-making and state-making to organized crime, remain central in political sociology. He also played a key role in the evolution of historical sociology and the relational sociology movement, especially through his collaborations and influence on the New York School.
A leading theorist of social movements, Tilly outlined how modern protest became structured around campaigns, repertoires of contention, and public displays of unity, worthiness, numbers, and commitment. His work with scholars like Sidney Tarrow and Doug McAdam further redefined the field by linking social movements to broader political processes.
Tilly received numerous honors, including membership in the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as multiple honorary doctorates. His legacy endures through awards bearing his name and through continued influence on generations of social scientists.
Tilly began his academic career after earning his doctorate in sociology from Harvard University, where he studied under noted figures like George C. Homans and Barrington Moore Jr. He taught at several major institutions, including the University of Michigan, The New School, and ultimately Columbia University, where he held the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professorship of Social Science.
He developed a distinctive theoretical approach that rejected simplistic, static models of society, instead emphasizing dynamic processes and relational mechanisms. Tilly’s theories of state formation, particularly his provocative comparison of war-making and state-making to organized crime, remain central in political sociology. He also played a key role in the evolution of historical sociology and the relational sociology movement, especially through his collaborations and influence on the New York School.
A leading theorist of social movements, Tilly outlined how modern protest became structured around campaigns, repertoires of contention, and public displays of unity, worthiness, numbers, and commitment. His work with scholars like Sidney Tarrow and Doug McAdam further redefined the field by linking social movements to broader political processes.
Tilly received numerous honors, including membership in the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as multiple honorary doctorates. His legacy endures through awards bearing his name and through continued influence on generations of social scientists.
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April 26, 2021
there are inequalities in life chances between various categories of persons: male/female, black/white, citizen/foreigner, and so on. for each pair, you could attempt to give a pair-specific explanation of the inequality, something to do with its historical origins and how the inequality is persisting through time. what tilly is doing here is different: he is offering a *general* explanation that purports to cover all durable categorical inequalities. as you'd imagine, it's quite abstract. here in block-quote is one bit where he outlines the theory:
[begin quote]
Humans invented categorical inequality millennia ago and have applied it to a wide range of social situations. People establish systems of categorical inequality, however inadvertently, chiefly by means of these two causal mechanisms:
• Exploitation, which operates when powerful, connected people command resources from which they draw significantly increased returns by coordinating the effort of outsiders whom they exclude from the full value added by that effort.
• Opportunity hoarding, which operates when members of a categorically bounded network acquire access to a resource that is valuable, renewable, subject to monopoly, supportive of network activities, and enhanced by the network’s modus operandi. [...]
Two further mechanisms cement such arrangements in place:
• Emulation, the copying of established organizational models and/or the transplanting of existing social relations from one setting to another; and
• Adaptation, the elaboration of daily routines such as mutual aid, political influence, courtship, and information gathering on the basis of categorically unequal structures.
Exploitation and opportunity hoarding favor the installation of categorical inequality, while emulation and adaptation generalize its influence.
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[begin quote]
Humans invented categorical inequality millennia ago and have applied it to a wide range of social situations. People establish systems of categorical inequality, however inadvertently, chiefly by means of these two causal mechanisms:
• Exploitation, which operates when powerful, connected people command resources from which they draw significantly increased returns by coordinating the effort of outsiders whom they exclude from the full value added by that effort.
• Opportunity hoarding, which operates when members of a categorically bounded network acquire access to a resource that is valuable, renewable, subject to monopoly, supportive of network activities, and enhanced by the network’s modus operandi. [...]
Two further mechanisms cement such arrangements in place:
• Emulation, the copying of established organizational models and/or the transplanting of existing social relations from one setting to another; and
• Adaptation, the elaboration of daily routines such as mutual aid, political influence, courtship, and information gathering on the basis of categorically unequal structures.
Exploitation and opportunity hoarding favor the installation of categorical inequality, while emulation and adaptation generalize its influence.
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June 11, 2019
Una tesis que bien pudo ser explicada en 50 páginas o menos. Si bien la tesis de los mecanismos de la desigual categorial resulta práctica, el autor no recurre a evidencia dura, sino a referencia anecdoticas sin datos duros.
December 4, 2008
Eyeopener!
January 12, 2010
Very useful concepts and theory. I could have done without Tilly unnecessarily complicating some very basic ideas.
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