SOC313H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Randall Collins, Paul Pierson, Counterfactual Conditional
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January 19, 2016 by randall collins: turning points, bottlenecks, and the fallacies of counterfactual history . Http://journals1. scholarsportal. info. myaccess. library. utoronto. ca/pdf: increasing returns, path dependence, and the study of politics by paul. 1. pdf?accepttc=true social control: what role, if any, do you think history plays in sociology, or the study of. Different things that were allowed then but are not allowed now. Helps us understand the way we thought and the way we think now. Knowledge that we"ve discovered that we can build upon now. The study of social control: in terms of understanding modern laws, we look back into the past. Critical junctures in the course of world history. If relatively minor events had unfolded differently during these turning points, the course of world history would have been dramatically altered: if hitler died during world war 1, it would still turn out the same.
