Oregon daily emerald., May 18, 1973, Page 4, Image 4

Tilly
Historian criticizes
social scientists
Charles Tilly, professor of history and sociology at the University
of Michigan (Ann Arbor), presented a lecture to history buffs Thurs
day in the Dads Room of the EMU. Tilly is a guest of the Robert Lyon
Fund and the department of history.
The lecture was entitled “What’s New in Revolution.” In it, Tilly
discussed the weaknesses of revolutionary social scientists with their
computers, quantification and model building as opposed to the merits
of “collective history.”
He said, “Social scientists have been threatening to revolutionize
the study of revolution for some time now. So far they haven’t
produced more than an occasional rumble.”
Tilly went on to give the social scientists some credit, however.
“They have produced refinements, new materials and
procedures Breakthroughs, no,” he remarked. “ ‘Collective history'
has substantially changed our understanding of a series of crucial
events in Europe and America.”
This widely published historian pointed out that he does not
suggest that computers, quantifications and models be done away
with. Rather, he believes that changes in the logic of analysis will have
greater impact than changes in particular techniques.
“Social scientists have been employing more and more glittering,
yet no more toothsome versions of the same old sauce,” said Tilly.
He proceeded to explain how the abstract approaches of men like
Ted Kerr and Chalmers Johnson are inferior to the more practical
style of. for instance, Eric Wolf.
“It is time to turn the tables,” concluded Tilly. “To bring into the
study of conflict a generation of historians armed with theory,
schooled in technique, and yet, still sensitve to time, place, person and
social process ”
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Community
school meet
to he held
A Consortium of faculty,
students and citizens concerned
with the use of community
schools as resource centers for
communities will be held at the
University June 11 through June
15.
The Consortium, “Community
Education: Catalyst for
Cooperation,” will be comprised
of two separate sessions One
designed for undergraduate and
graduate students, is a seminar,
which will involve the pooling of
resources of the University’s
Colleges of Education and
Health, Physical Education and
Recreation and the School of
Community Service and Public
Affairs in a cooperative and
intensive learning experience.
A second session, running
concurrently with the seminar, is
a conference for lay and
professional citizens. This is
sponsored by the Northwest
Regional Center for Community
Education, who urge all citizens
to participate.
Both the seminar and the
conference will focus on the use
of community schools as a center
for solution of community
problems operating on on 24-hour
a day use.
Experts, skilled in community
education, from all parts of the
country will be brought to the
campus to discuss the many
opportunities to acquire concepts
and skills in problem solving at
the neighborhood and community
level, and the development of
cooperative processes between
the human services and
disciplines and the public.
Among the visiting experts are
V.M. Kerensky of Florida
Atlantic University, Curtis Van
Voorhees of the University of
Michigan, Charles Porter of
Colorado State University and
Edwin Staley, director of the Los
Angeles Recreation and Youth
Planning Council.
The sessions, explains Richard
Ingraham, associate professor in
the School of Community Service
and Public Affairs and director
and coordinator of the Con
sortium , will be work sessions in
fact, running throughout the days
and evenings.