Abstract
The title of this book, Explaining Social Processes, is a homage to one of the sociologist Charles Tilly's final publications by that same name in which Tilly offers his methodology for analysing social processes. Tilly presented us with a collection of his essays on social processes from a wide range of subjects while focusing largely on approaches to method and explanation.
A similarly dynamic collection and approach has been proposed in this work, which considers a diverse range of subjects and theorists who have either directly or indirectly addressed the concept of social processes. The book provides a detailed overview of the various current and historical approaches to the subject in a thematic manner with additional analysis provided by the authors themselves.
This collection, rather than presenting an entirely new sociological theory, claims to offer a 'critical eclecticism' of specific conceptual elements which are then subject to a 'critical reconfigurationism'