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What is Theories of Revolution Revisited: Toward a Fourth Generation? about?
Recent developments in sociological theorizing about revolution are surveyed, critiqued, and evaluated in terms of an emerging new paradigm. The first section assesses the strengths and weaknesses of 1970s theorizing by Tilly, Paige, and Skocpol. A second section takes up themes of state and crisis from 1980s work deepening this tradition. A third section identifies and discusses recent work in new areas critical of the structuralists, on agency, social structure, and culture. Finally, the shape of a new paradigm based on conjunctural modeling of economic, political, and cultural processes is suggested with a discussion of Walton and of very recent work by Farhi, Foran, and Goldstone. Since the publication of Theda Skocpol's landmark States and Social Revolutions in the revolutionarily auspicious year 1979, both the literature on the subject and the empirical range of the phenomenon itself have expanded enormously. To cite only the most dramatic events, the last dozen years have witnessed social revolutions in Iran and Nicaragua, watershed political transformations throughout eastern Europe, a valiant attempt at a movement for democratic change in China, and, in spring 1991, the ar
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- Author
- John Foran
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences