Exhaustive enumeration reveals contention falls into a limited set of recurring forms
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
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Empirical ground for the repertoire concept from earlier chapters — the boundedness of forms this chapter documents is what makes repertoires causally coherent.