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Errors, Durable and Otherwise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2000

Charles Tilly
Charles Tilly
Affiliation:
Columbia University
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Social life consists of making mistakes, then correcting them. The big questions do not concern who makes the fewest mistakes and why, but whether the mistakes are fruitful, how fast people recognize them, and how well they correct them. The same principles apply to writing books, even if the interaction and error-correction take longer to operate than in everyday conversation. This symposium's vigorous, vital critiques of Durable Inequality establish that my book is no exception to the rule. Clearly in writing the book I made mistakes of at least four kinds:

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CSSH Discussion
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , April 2000 , pp. 487 - 493
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© 2000 Society for Comparative Study of Society and History