Part I Introduction; Chapter 1 Ties That Bind ... and Bound; Part II Relational Mechanisms; Chapter 2 Violent Conflict, Social Ties, and Explanations of Social Processes; Chapter 3 Mechanisms in Political Processes; Chapter 4 Do Unto Others; Part III Inequality; Chapter 5 Durable Inequality; Chapter 6 Relational Origins of Inequality; Chapter 7 Changing Forms of Inequality; Chapter 8 Unequal Knowledge; Part IV Boundaries; Chapter 9 Social Boundary Mechanisms; Chapter 10 Chain Migration and Opportunity Hoarding; Chapter 11 Boundaries, Citizenship, and Exclusion; partV Political Boundaries; Chapter 12 Why Worry About Citizenship?; Chapter 13 Inequality, Democratization, and De-Democratization; Chapter 14 Political Identities in Changing Polities; Chapter 15 Invention, Diffusion, and Transformation of the Social Movement Repertoire;

Offering a distinctive, coherent account of social processes and individuals' connections to their larger social and political worlds, this book demonstrates the connections between inequality and de-democratization, between identities and social inequality, and between citizenship and identities.