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Stories, Identities, and Political Change
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An award-winning sociologist, Charles Tilly has been equally influential in explaining politics, history, and how societies change. TillyOs newest book tackles fundamental questions about the nature of personal, political, and national identities and their linkage to big events_revolutions, social movements, democratization, and other processes of political and social change. Tilly focuses in this book on the role of stories, as means of creating personal identity, but also as explanations, true or false, of political tensions and realities. He uses well-known examples from around the world_the Zapatista rebellion, Hindu-Muslim conflicts, and other examples in which nationalism and other forms of group identity are politically pivotal. Tilly writes with the immediacy of a journalist, but the profound insight of a great theorist.
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Social scientists and psychologists have long emphasized the role that stories play in collective action-driving the formation and dynamics of nations, religions, hunter-gatherer communities, organizations, cultural groups, and even financial markets.
“Social scientists and psychologists have long emphasized the role that stories play in collective action—driving the formation and dynamics of nations (Tilly, 2002), religions (Dunbar, 2022), hunter-gatherer communities (D. Smith et al., 2017; Sugiyama, 2001), organizations (Boje, 2008), cultural groups (Michalopoulos & Xue, 2021), and even financial markets (Shiller, 2017).”
From Stories in Action. (2022) · cites this paper as Tilly, 2002
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Walsh, J., Vaida, N., Coman, A., & Fiske, S. T. (2022) · Psychological Science in the Public Interest · doi:10.1177/15291006231161337 · Cited by 26
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- Authors
- Tilly, C.
- Corresponding author
- Tilly, Charles
- Venue
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers eBooks
- Published
- 2002
- OpenAlex
- W4417393830
- Cited by
- 24
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Conflict and Governance
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Cultural History and Identity Formation
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Movements and Cultural Identity
- Keywords
- personal identity, political identity, national identity, stories, revolution, social movements, democratization, nationalism, Zapatista uprising, Hindu-Muslim conflict, political transition, group identity
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