Charles Tilly (May 27, 1929 – April 29, 2008) was an American sociologist, political scientist, and historian who wrote on the relationship between

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and

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. He was a professor of

history History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well ...

, sociology, and

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at the

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from 1969 to 1984 before becoming the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at

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. He has been described as "the founding father of 21st-century sociology" and "one of the world's preeminent sociologists and historians." He published widely across topics such as urban sociology, state formation, democracy, social movements, labor, and inequality. He was an influential proponent of large-scale historical social science research. The title of Tilly's 1984 book ''Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons'' is characteristic of his particular approach to social science research.

Early life and education

Tilly was born in Lombard, Illinois (near Chicago). His parents were Naneth and Otto Tilly, Welsh-German immigrants. He graduated from York Community High School in 1946. He graduated from

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in 1950 with a Bachelor of Arts

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. He served in the U.S. Navy as a paymaster of an amphibious squadron during the

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. Tilly completed his Doctor of Philosophy in

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at Harvard in 1958. While at Harvard, he was a student in the Department of Social Relations during the "Harvard revolution" in social network analysis. Tilly was a teaching assistant to

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, who along with

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and

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was considered by many in the profession to be among the world's leading sociologists.Castañeda, Ernesto, and Cathy Lisa Schneider. “Introduction,” pp. 1-22,in Ernesto Castañeda and Cathy Lisa Schneider (eds.), ''Collective Violence, Contentious Politics, and Social Change: A Charles Tilly Reader''. New York, NY: Routledge, p. 2. But every time Sorokin heard Tilly's ideas he would say something like "Very interesting Mr. Tilly but I do think Plato said it better." Tilly eventually turned to Barrington Moore Jr. and

to supervise his dissertation. But Tilly never failed to say that Sorokin was a great person even though Tilly eschewed any great person theory of history.

Academic career

Charles Tilly taught at the

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(1956-1962),

(1963-1966), the

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(1965-1969), the

(1969-1984),

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(1984-1996), and

(1996-2008). At Michigan, Tilly was professor of history 1969–1984, professor of sociology 1969–1981, and the Theodore M. Newcomb Professor of Social Science 1981–1984. At the New School from 1984 to 1996 he was Distinguished Professor of sociology and history 1984-1990 and University Distinguished Professor 1990-1996. in 1996, he was the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science. Over the course of his career, Tilly wrote more than 600 articles and 51 books and monographs. His most highly cited books are: the edited volume ''The Formation of National States in Western Europe'' (1975), ''From Mobilization to Revolution'' (1978), ''Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1990'' (1990), ''Durable Inequality'' (1998), and ''Dynamics of Contention'' (2001).

Academic work

Tilly's academic work covered multiple topics in the

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and influenced scholarship in disciplines outside of sociology, including history and

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and ...

. He is considered a major figure in the development of historical sociology, the early use of

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in historical analysis, the methodology of event cataloging, the turn towards relational and social-network modes of inquiry, the development of process- and mechanism-based analysis, as well as the study of:

contentious politics Contentious politics is the use of disruptive techniques to make a political point, or to change government policy. Examples of such techniques are actions that disturb the normal activities of society such as demonstrations, general strike action, ...

social movements A social movement is a loosely organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a particular goal, typically a social or political one. This may be to carry out a social change, or to resist or undo one. It is a type of group action and ma ...

, the history of

labor Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work ** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer ** Organized labour and the la ...

, state formation, revolutions,

democratization Democratization, or democratisation, is the transition to a more democratic political regime, including substantive political changes moving in a democratic direction. It may be a hybrid regime in transition from an authoritarian regime to a full ...

, inequality, and urban sociology. At Columbia, along with

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, Tilly played a key role in the emergence of the New York School of relational sociology.

Urban sociology

In the 1960s and 1970s, Tilly studied migration to cities, and was an influential theorist about urban phenomena and treating communities as

social networks A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. The social network perspective provides a set of methods for a ...

. In 1968 Tilly presented his report on European collective violence to the Eisenhower Commission, a body formed under the Johnson administration to assess urban unrest amidst the Civil Rights Movement. The report was included in Vol. 1 of ''Violence in America'', a collection edited by scholars on the staff of the commission. As informed by his studies of contentious politics in 19th-century Europe, and the present violence in the U.S., his interest in cities and communities became closely linked with his passion for the study of both social movements and collective violence.

An approach to the study of societies

Tilly outlined the distinctive approach he would use in his research on the state and capitalism in ''Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons'' (1984). In this work, he argued against eight common ideas in social theory: * The view that societies are not connected with each other * The view that collective behavior can be explained in terms of the mental state of individuals * The view that societies can be understood as blocs, lacking parts or components * The view that societies evolve through a fixed stages (an assumption common in

modernization theory Modernization theory is used to explain the process of modernization within societies. The "classical" theories of modernization of the 1950s and 1960s drew on sociological analyses of Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim and a partial reading of Max Weber, ...

) * The view that differentiation is a master process, common to all societies as they modernize * The view that quick differentiation generates disorder * The view that rapid social change causes behaviors that are not considered normal, such as crime * The view that "illegitimate" and "legitimate" kinds of conflict originate in different processes On the positive side, he argued in favor of "historically grounded huge comparisons of big structures and large processes", while being careful to consider the temporal and spatial context of explanations. The approach Tilly laid out has sometimes been called historical sociology or comparative historical analysis. More substantively, Tilly sketched a research program focused on two broad macro processes, capitalism development and the formation of modern states.

Social movements and contentious politics

One of the themes that runs through a large number of Tilly's work is the collective actions of groups that challenge the status quo. Tilly dedicated two books, on France and Great Britain, to the topics: ''The Contentious French. Four Centuries of Popular Struggle'' (1986) and ''Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758–1834'' (1995). Later on, he co-authored two influential books on social movements: ''Dynamics of Contention'' (2001), with Doug McAdam and Sidney Tarrow; and ''Contentious Politics'' (2006) with Sidney Tarrow. Tilly also provided an overview of social movement, from their origins in the eighteen century to the early twenty-first century, in ''Social Movements, 1768-2004'' (2004). Tilly argues that social movements were a new novel phenomenon that emerged in the West in the mid-nineteenth century and that social movements are characterized by three features: (1) a campaign - a "sustained, organized public effort" aimed at making collective demands from public authorities; (2) a repertoire of contention - the use of various forms of action, such as public meetings, demonstrations, and so on; and (3) a public display of certain qualities, specifically worthiness, unity, numbers, and commitment. In his work with McAdam and Tarrow, Tilly seeks to advance a new agenda for the study of social movements. First, he and his co-authors claim that various of forms of contention politics, including revolutions, ethnic mobilization, democratization should be connected to each other. Second, he argued for an analysis that puts the focus squarely on causal mechanisms and that the goal of research should be the identification of "recurrent mechanisms and processes." Specifically, in ''Dynamics of Contention'' Tilly and his co-authors focus on mechanism such as brokerage, category formation, and elite defection.

State formation

Tilly's 1975 edited volume ''The Formation of National States in Western Europe'' was influential in the state formation literature. In the volume and in subsequent works, including the 1990 book '' Coercion, Capital, and European States,'' Tilly advances a theory of state formation whereby warfare and competition prompted state formation. Tilly famously remarked, "War made the state, and the state made war." Per Tilly, the state developed largely as a result of "state-makers" who sought to extract resources from the people under their control so they could continue fighting wars. Rulers who were better able to extract the means of warfare were more likely to survive and conquer the territory of other rulers whereas rulers who were unable to effectively extract resources were more likely to see their political units decline. Thus, the modern state emerged as the dominant organizational form through natural selection and competition. Tilly's theory of state formation is considered dominant in the state formation literature. Tilly's work on state formation was influenced by Otto Hintze, as well as Tilly's long-time friend

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. According to Tilly, through war-making the state is able to monopolize physical violence, enabling the state to title any other entity practicing violence as unlawful. Tilly's theories however have been claimed to hold a Eurocentric syntax, as such a monopolization did not take place in the post-colonial world due to the heavy interference of foreign actors. Other scholars have disputed this theory, and argued that his argument does not extend to Africa or East Asia. He has also been criticized for not specifying what he considers to be a state.

Democracy and democratization

Tilly wrote several books on democracy late in his career. These include ''Contention and Democracy in Europe, 1650-2000'' (2004) and ''Democracy'' (2007). In these works, Tilly argued that political regimes should be evaluated in terms of four criteria: * Breadth: the extent to which citizens enjoy rights * Equality: the extent of inequality within the citizenry * Protection: the extent to which citizens are protected from arbitrary state action * Mutually binding consultation: the extent to which state agents are obligated to deliver benefits to citizens The more a regime had these qualities, the more democratic it is. In his work on democracy, Tilly showed an interest in exploring the link between state capacity and democratization. He distinguished between different paths countries followed, based on whether they developed state capacity before, at the same time, or after they democratized. He concluded that powerful states can block or subvert democracy, and that weak states run the danger of civil war and fragmentation. Thus, he thought that a middle path, in which steps to build the state and democracy were matched, as exemplified by the United States, is the more feasible one.

Awards and honors

Tilly received several awards, including: * Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1968–1969 and 1997-1998. *

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in 1972 * The

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in 1974 *

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in 197

* The Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service in sociology in 1982 * Fellow,

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of the United States (1983-1984) * The

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in 1994; for ''European Revolutions (1942-1992)'' * The

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's Merit Award for Distinguished Scholarship in 1996 * Member of the

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in 2002 * The

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's Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award in 2005 * The International Political Science Association's Karl Deutsch Award in Comparative Politics in 2006 * The

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Sidney Hook Memorial Award in 2006 * The

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's Albert O. Hirschman Award in 2008 He also received honorary doctorates from

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of Rotterdam in 1983, the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of University of Paris in 1993, the

in 1995, the

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in 1996, the

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in 1999, the

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in 2002, the

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in 2004 and the

in 2007. (Archived 29 April 2008 press release from ISERP, Columbia University.) He was awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Knight of the Order of Academic Palms) by the French government. In 2001, Columbia's sociology graduate students named Tilly the Professor of the Year. The Charles Tilly Award for Best Book, of the Collective Behavior and Social Movements section of the

was names after Tilly in 1986. The Charles Tilly Best Article Award has been awarded by the Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology of the American Sociological Association since 2005. After his death, numerous special journal issues, conferences, awards and obituaries appeared in his honor. The

hosted a 2008 conference, co-sponsored with

and the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, in his honor: "A Celebration of the Life and Works of Charles Tilly" At this conference the SSRC announced the ''Charles Tilly and Louise Tilly Fund for Social Science History''. The conference had presentations from notable sociologists including: Craig Calhoun,

, Doug McAdam,

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, William Sewell, Jack Goldstone, Sidney Tarrow,

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and

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. A 2010 special issue of '' Social Science History'' was dedicated to (the work of) Charles Tilly, as was a 2010 special issue of '' The American Sociologist''. The latter was edited by Andreas Koller, and included contributions by George Steinmetz, Neil Gross,

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Kim Voss Kim Voss (born 1952) is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley whose main field of research is social movements and the American labor movement. Education and career Voss received her bachelor's degree from Catawb ...

Rogers Brubaker Rogers Brubaker (; born 1956) is professor of sociology at University of California, Los Angeles and UCLA Foundation Chair. He has written academic works on social theory, immigration, citizenship, nationalism, ethnicity, religion, diasporas, gen ...

, Mustafa Emirbayer, and

. In 2010, the journal '' Theory and Society'' also published a special issue on "Cities, States, Trust, and Rule" dedicated to the work of Tilly.

Death

Charles Tilly died in the Bronx on April 29, 2008, from

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. As he was fading in the hospital, he got one characteristic sentence out to early student

: "It's a complex situation." In a statement after Tilly's death,

president Lee C. Bollinger stated that Tilly "literally wrote the book on the contentious dynamics and the ethnographic foundations of political history". Adam Ashforth of The University of Michigan described Tilly as "the founding father of 21st-century sociology".

Partial bibliography

*''The Vendée: A Sociological Analysis of the Counter-revolution of 1793'' (1964) *"Collective Violence in European Perspective." Pp. 4–45 in ''Violence in America: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. A report to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. Volume 1.'' Eds.

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and Ted Robert Gurr. (1969) *"Clio and Minerva." Pp. 433–66 in ''Theoretical Sociology'', eds. John McKinney and Edward Tiryakian. (1970) *"Do Communities Act?" ''

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'' 43: 209–40. (1973) *''An Urban World.'' (ed.) (1974). *''The Formation of National States in Western Europe'' (ed.) (1975) *''From Mobilization to Revolution'' (1978) *''As Sociology Meets History'' (1981) *''Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons'' (1984)
''War Making and State Making as Organized Crime''
In ''Bringing the State Back In'', edited by Peter Evans, et al., 169–87. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1985, PDF Online *''The Contentious French'' (1986) *''Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990–1990'' (1990) *'' Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990–1992'' (1992) *''European Revolutions, 1492–1992'' (1993) *''Cities and the Rise of States in Europe, A.D. 1000 to 1800'' (1994) *''Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758–1834'' (1995) *''Roads from Past to Future'' (1997) *''Work Under Capitalism'' (with Chris Tilly, 1998) *''Durable Inequality'' (1998) *''Transforming Post-Communist Political Economies'' (1998) *''Dynamics of Contention'' (with Doug McAdam and Sidney Tarrow) (2001) *''The Politics of Collective Violence'' (2003) *''Contention & Democracy in Europe, 1650–2000'' (2004) *''Social Movements, 1768–2004'' (2004) *''From Contentions to Democracy'' (2005) *''Identities, Boundaries, and Social Ties'' (2005) *''Trust and Rule'' (2005) *''Why?'' (2006) *''Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis'' (2006) *''Contentious Politics'' (with Sidney Tarrow) (2006) *''Regimes and Repertoires'' (2006) *''Democracy'' (2007) *''Credit and Blame'' (2008) *''Contentious Performances'' (2008) *''Social Movements, 1768–2008'', 2nd edition (with Lesley Wood, 2009)

References

External links

Annotated Links to Charles Tilly ResourcesTributes to Charles Tilly written by his colleaguesAlbert O. Hirschman Prize (2008)Hirschman Prize Ceremony Speeches and Memorial Conference PapersCharles Tilly and Louise Tilly Fund for Social Science HistoryNewspaper Obituaries to Charles TillyInteractive Version of "Memorials to Credit & Blame" (2008)Tilly’s Writings on MethodologyMechanisms in Political Processes
2000 article, PDF online

in ''

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