@article{ref1,
title="Charles Tilly and American Pragmatism",
journal="American sociologist",
year="2010",
author="Gross, Neil",
volume="41",
number="4",
pages="337-357",
abstract="Charles Tilly's work on repertoires of contention and social mechanisms was pathbreaking. In this article, I argue that his understanding of both concepts overlaps with social-theoretical work informed by the philosophical tradition of classical American pragmatism. There is no evidence that Tilly was influenced by pragmatism, but I argue that the overlap is substantial enough that large portions of his oeuvre can serve as illustrations of the explanatory power of pragmatist social science--and that Tilly's theorization of mechanisms in particular would have been even stronger had he engaged pragmatism directly.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0003-1232",
doi="10.1007/s12108-010-9110-1",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12108-010-9110-1"
}