Repertoires are toolkits whose efficacy depends on match with tasks and users

Evidence

We must recognize that repertoires of contention are sets of tools for the people involved. Backward/forward, prepolitical/political, and similar distinctions do not classify the tools but the particular circumstances for using them. The tools serve more than one end. Their relative efficacy depends on the match among tools, tasks, and users. A new repertoire emerged in nineteenth-century Britain because new users took up new tasks and found the available tools inadequate to their problems and abilities. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 350

Categorization

• DEFINE: Tilly’s ‘toolkit’ framing of repertoires — efficacy is task-relative, not inherent to the form.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 350
• XREF: connects to: Repertoires are learned, clustered, and improvisational but finite — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 234; Repertoire strength depends on the balance between familiar preference and innovation capacity — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 260; Repertoires vary with class relations, issue type, and gathering occasion across settings — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 314 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Trait evaluation is context-dependent and flips with role fit #expands (0.72) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 197