Tag: Charles Tilly
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The Great Paradox of the French Revolution
One of Bastos’s central arguments is that the French Revolution destroyed forms of authority and social organization that had evolved over centuries, replacing them with an abstract, homogeneous, and centralized political model. According to this interpretation, the old provinces, charters, jurisdictions, and local communities were replaced by artificial administrative divisions conceived by the central power…
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Critique to sociology and related disciplines by Bastos
But the idea is that there is a kind of determinism, that there is a series of statistical data from the past that can be used to predict the future, and from those statistics, from that data, a deterministic vision is born. So, for example, everything that is forecasting, futures analysis, and things like that…