Contentious events in any setting fall into a limited number of repeating categories

Evidence

Unlike investigations singling out events in advance for their importance (whatever the standard of importance), this sort of inquiry leads almost inevitably to a sense of déjà vu, to a realization that the events in any particular time and place fall into a limited number of categories repeating themselves with only minor variations. Yet different settings and periods produce different arrays of events: collective seizures of grain, invasions of enclosed fields, and attacks on gamekeepers in one place and time; sacking of houses, satirical processions, and sending of delegations in another; demonstrations, strikes, and mass meetings in yet another. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 313

Categorization

• DEFINE: This is the empirical observation behind the repertoire concept — the claim that each time and place has a finite, recurring array of contention forms.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 313
• XREF: connects to: Exhaustive enumeration reveals contention falls into a limited set of recurring forms; Rare events like mass shootings resist prediction because their causes interact uniquely — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1279; Litigation disputes fall into fact, law, or mixed categories — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1276 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Exhaustive enumeration reveals contention falls into a limited set of recurring forms #corroborates (0.95)
• Litigation disputes fall into fact, law, or mixed categories #exemplifies (0.85) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1276
• Repertoires vary with class relations, issue type, and gathering occasion across settings #qualifies (0.78) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 314
• Rare events like mass shootings resist prediction because their causes interact uniquely #complicates (0.72) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1279
• Novel or troubling events only make sense once mapped onto existing connotative domains #corroborates (0.72)