Sociální konflikty a revoluce v historické sociologii Michaela Manna, Charlese Tillyho a Thedy Skocpolové

Michael Mann, Charles Tilly a Theda Skocpol belong to the leading personalities of the US “New historical sociology” in 80s. The main goal of the article is to present the ideas and thinking of these three, in Czech academic sphere, relatively unknown authors and try to outline the comparison of their approaches. Based on analysis of their works and the secondary literature on them, I show that all of the authors connect a modernist approach, interest for the social change, inspiration by Marx and Weber and the revision of their thinking. On the other hand, there are significant differences among them based on their topics (in sense of space and time), interests for a different social processes and methods. The main difference lies in macro or micro- historical approach. The first we find in the works by Mann, the second dominates the works by Tilly. Skocpol could be put in the middle position.