Scholarly Peer Reviewed Journal Articles on the Roots of Social Revolution
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1 Gerber, Haim , Islam, Guerrilla War, and Revolution: A Written report in Comparative Social History (Bedrock and London, 1988).Google Scholar
three James, G. Frazer , The Gold Bender: A Study in Magic and Organized religion (London, 1922),Google Scholar uses the hypothetico-illustrative technique called Bacon's consecration by enumeration and elimination, Factory'southward methods of understanding and deviation, or (in social science) the comparative method. Freud's repressed reliance on intuition and illustration is a leitmotif of Frank, J. Sulloway , Freud, Biologist of the Mind: Across the Psychoanalytic Legend (New York, 1979). Cf. annotation 5 below.Google Scholar
four Skocpol, Theda , "Emerging Agendas and Recurrent Strategies in Historical Sociology", in Skocpol, Theda (ed.), Vision and Method in Historical Sociology (Cambridge, 1984), pp. 356–391,CrossRefGoogle Scholar the methodological full-blooded of Skocpol, Theda , States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russian federation, and China (Cambridge, 1979), scores an ain goal.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
5 Skocpol contends the comparative method can "validate", not merely "illustrate" hypotheses ( States, p. 38),Google Scholar though that is a fallacy ( Karl, R. Popper , The Logic of Scientific Discovery (London, 1972), pp. 27–145, 251–281).Google Scholar The almost it can do is examination hypotheses by producing exceptions, even as theorists seldom subvert their ain ideas by researching counterevidence: competitors do that ( Karl, R. Popper , The Open up Society and Its Enemies, ii vols (London, 1966), 2, pp. 260, 267, 217, 218, 220, 221).Google Scholar
7 Information technology transpires that the "takeover by the Albanian Communist party may properly be called a social revolution", besides that Southward Yemen "became a Marxist state. The South Yemeni revolution thus clearly qualifies as a radical social revolution" (Ibid., pp. 32, 48).
viii Sic transit gloria mundi. Gerber shows the danger of reading Communist revolutions every bit the culmination or consummation of history. The very idea now sounds anachronistic, even oxymoronic.
nine Gerber, , Islam, pp. 6–seven, 178–179, 17, 8.Google Scholar Gerber loans "decentralized sharecropping" from Jeffery, M. Paige , Agrarian Revolution: Social Movements and Export Agriculture in the Underdeveloped Earth (New York, 1975), pp. 58–71, 358–376.Google Scholar
eleven Ibid., pp. 16–17, 178–179.
13 These peremptory remarks on explanation proceed from Rethinking Revolutions and Collective Violence: Studies on Concept, Theory, and Method (Amsterdam, 1990), which I cite as an excuse for non going into item hither.Google Scholar
xv Ditto note xiii above. The monograph cited there presents the homework behind this contentious paragraph.
16 Gerber's hit-or-miss class analysis of Albania and South Yemen ( Islam, pp. 35–42, 53–88)Google Scholar looks for "signs of discontent" with the "reigning social order" because if (as he assumes) "social" revolutions owe in part to "deep resentment" of an "extremely inegalitarian social structure" (Ibid., p. 78), he needs contained evidence for that leg of his explanatory argument to avoid circularity. If show exists that lower-class discontent with "social structure" indeed motivated revolutionary violence, Gerber keeps it well hidden.
17 Ibid., pp. 174, 41, 45, 196, 96.
18 On that hypothesis and its critics come across Johnson, Chalmers , "Peasant Nationalism Revisited: The Biography of a Book", People's republic of china Quarterly, 72 (1977), pp. 766–785,CrossRefGoogle Scholar together with Johnson, Chalmers , Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power: The Emergence of Revolutionary China, 1937–1945 (Stanford, 1962).Google Scholar
19 Gerber, , Islam, pp. 173, 101.Google Scholar Annotation that the "final plow to Marxism" in South Yemen occurred in June 1969 whereas the British had quit Aden in November 1967. Gerber admits he cannot explain the filibuster (Ibid., pp. 102, 97, 103).
21 Home, Alistair , A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954–1962 (London, 1977), pp. 27, 136–138, 406–407.Google Scholar
23 Postdating Eric, R. Wolf , Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century (New York, 1969), pp. 211–247, by virtually 2 decades, Gerber's chapter on People's democratic republic of algeria represents a regression – in enquiry, theory, and style – delightful to disbelievers in cumulation.Google Scholar
24 Gerber, , Islam, pp. 148, 149, 153, 147.Google Scholar Thus oversold, comparative study sounds more than like a cargo cult than a confidence game. Either way, the revolution in sociology Gerber credits to the comparative method is a undercover he lonely seems to know. Puzzled readers might ponder Tilly, Charles , Large Structures, Big Processes, Huge Comparisons (New York, 1984), which – with no trace of malice aforethought – confirms for comparative historical sociology the point Leach makes about contemporary ethnographic anthropology in the epigraph above.Google Scholar
25 Ginzburg, Carlo , Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath (London, 1990), p. 67.Google Scholar
26 John, Maynard Keynes , A Treatise on Probability (London, 1973), p. 273,Google Scholar after Frazer, , Golden Bender, p. 225. Modern ethnography records copious cases of "curious superstition involving the comparative method".Google Scholar
27 The award ceremony is chapter 5 of the monograph cited in note 13 above or "La révolution en échec: Des situations révolutionnaires sans dénouements révolutionnaires", Revue française de sociologie, thirty (1989), pp. 559–586.Google Scholar
28 Sylvia, L. Thrupp , doyenne of comparative study, often warns of this danger: in Raymond, Grew and Nicholas, H. Steneck (eds), Club and History: Essays (Ann Arbor, 1977).Google Scholar
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