Credit and Blame by Charles Tilly
Offers a look at the ways people fault and applaud each other and themselves. The stories gathered in this book range from the everyday to the altogether unexpected, from personal to humorous - whether it's the acceptance speech of an Academy Award winner or testimony before a congressional panel.
"Throughout his 50-book career, Tilly liked to squint hard at social life and find simple patterns[In Credit and Blame] his undogmatic schematizing could reshape our judgments about what might have been obvious to begin with."--Alexander Star, New York Times Book Review "Drawing upon sources as disparate as Dostoyevski, Darwin, water-cooler conversations and truth commissions, Tilly illustrated how assigning credit and blame stems from and redefines 'relations between the creditor and the credited, the blamer, and the blamed.' Tilly astutely analyzes how people accept credit and society assesses blame, and the commonalities between the two. With its most vivid examples drawn from the author's own life, this book is simultaneously highbrow and humble and a close analysis of social interaction."--Publishers Weekly
Charles Tilly (1929-2008) was the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. His books include "Why?" (Princeton) and "Democracy".
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691135786 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691135789 |
| Title | Credit and Blame |
| Author | Charles Tilly |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2008-05-11 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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