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Charles Tilly

Charles Tilly was a grown-up person who studied how people acted and behaved in groups.

He was very interested in how people used power and force to get what they wanted. He wanted to understand how governments and societies worked, and how they could be changed.

He wrote and talked a lot about how violence was used to make societies and governments work. He also studied revolutions, which are big changes in a government or society where lots of people get involved.

To put it simply, Charles Tilly was a person who studied how people in groups use power, force and violence to get what they want and how this affects governments and societies.