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Author: Charles Tilly
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Pages: 196
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Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.4 x 1

ISBN: 0691135789
Dewey Decimal Number: 302.12
EAN: 9780691135786
ASIN: 0691135789

Publication Date: May 11, 2008
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Product Description
pIn his eye-opening book iWhy?/i, world-renowned social scientist Charles Tilly exposed some startling truths about the excuses people make and the reasons they give. Now he's back with further explorations into the complexities of human relationships, this time examining what's really going on when we assign credit or cast blame./pp Everybody does it, but few understand the hidden motivations behind it. With his customary wit and dazzling insight, Tilly takes a lively and thought-provoking look at the ways people fault and applaud each other and themselves. The stories he gathers in iCredit and Blame/i range from the everyday to the altogether unexpected, from the revealingly personal to the insightfully humorous--whether it's the gushing acceptance speech of an Academy Award winner or testimony before a congressional panel, accusations hurled in a lover's quarrel or those traded by nations in a post-9/11 crisis, or a job promotion or the Nobel Prize. Drawing examples from literature, history, pop culture, and much more, Tilly argues that people seek not only understanding through credit and blame, but also justice. The punishment must fit the crime, accomplishments should be rewarded, and the guilty parties must always get their just deserts./pp Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, iCredit and Blame/i is a book that revolutionizes our understanding of the compliments we pay and the accusations we make./p

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2 out of 5 stars

Great promise, but does not deliver, which is a great shame December 26, 2008
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The book's title promises and interesting read: The question of how people work out and apportion credit and blame, externally (to their own minds) and internally is a most important question, morally and in practical matters. br /br /Unfortunately, this book does not deliver on its promise. Perhaps if one spent more time working out what the author is saying it might yield a great profit to the reader. However, most of the book discusses the problems of how people use the ideas of justice, credit and blame, without saying anything new and without recommending any schema for improvement either in how as an individual one might understand these concepts nor how from the points of view of a society or organization the usage of these concepts might be improved in practice. For example, the first part of the book is a condensed version of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. I didn't pay good mony to get a highly condensed re-spray job of a great novel that everyone has already read, and it is poor analysis, even in sociology, to base theories of human behaviour on works of fiction, even if they are great literary work. br /br /In the short time that this book was able to hold my attention, great though that attention was to begin with, I found only one potentially useful page in this book, which has a box describing "An all-purpose justice detector." Because of this one page, I give it an extra star. br /br /Overall, this was a frustrating book. I sense that the author is highly capable and well versed in the subject advertised by the book's title, but I never felt that he really connected to his own subject and did himself justice. I would like to read something else by this author, but I will be hesitant to pay up front next time. Overall my buying advice is that unless you have a particular reason for buying this book, your money may be better spent elsewhere.

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