Time Matters - On Theory & Method : On Theory and Method

Acknowledgements ix Prologue An Autobiographical Introduction 1(36) PART ONE METHODS AND ASSUMPTIONS Transcending General Linear Reality 37(27) Seven Types of Ambiguity 64(33) The Causal Devolution 97(32) PART TWO TIME AND METHOD What Do Cases Do? 129(32) Conceptions of Time and Events in Social Science Methods 161(22) From Causes to Events 183(26) PART THREE TIME AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE Temporality and Process in Social Life 209(31) On the Concept of Turning Point 240(21) Things of Boundaries 261(19) Epilogue Time Matters 280(19) References 299(14) Index 313