Front Cover; Theoretical Methods in Social History; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1. WHAT THEORY IN HISTORY SHOULD BE AND DO; Why General Ideas Are Justified; The Logical Positivist Version of Research; Quantitative Methods and Theoretical Methods; Epochal Interpretations; The Theoretical Character of Narrative; The Intellectual Tradition and This Book; Logic, Classes, and Causal Statements; A Case of Analogy; Explication; History in Modern Sociology; Empiricism and Theoretical Strategies; Technical Appendix: The Logic of Analogy

CHAPTER 2. ANALOGY AND GENERALITY IN TROTSKY AND DE TOCQUEVILLEThe Sociological Bias of Trotsky and de Tocqueville; The Sociology of Authority; Authority and Effectiveness; The Social Construction of Authoritative Purposes; Democracy, Liberty, and Authority; Authority and Inequality or ""Justice""; Structures of Authority and Strategic Groups; Authority and Symbols; Authority and Dual Power; The Implications of the Preceding Discussion; Geographical, Social, or Political Distribution as an Index of a Process; The Predispositions of Systems; Principles of Cumulative Causation; Virtual Choice

ConclusionsCHAPTER 3. FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF CLASS RELATIONS IN SMELSER AND BENDIX; Smelser's Argument; Functional Explanation of Change; ""Disturbance""; The Problems of Running a Family; Ideal Sequence Comparison; Comparative Histories of Roles; The Argument from Functional Completeness; The Theory and the Strategy; Bendix on Management Ideology; Identification of Ideological Problems; The Variety of Ideological Products; Analogy between Intellectual Productions; CHAPTER 4. CONCLUSION; What Makes Human Actions Analogous?; The Logic of Concepts; REFERENCES; INDEX