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Ritual, Emotion, Violence - Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins (Hardcover)
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Ritual, Emotion, Violence - Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins (Hardcover)
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Microsociologists seek to capture social life as it is experienced,
and in recent decades no one has championed the microsociological
approach more fiercely than Randall Collins. The pieces in this
exciting volume offer fresh and original insights into key aspects
of Collins' thought, and of microsociology more generally. The
introductory essay by Elliot B. Weininger and Omar Lizardo provides
a lucid overview of the key premises this perspective. Ethnographic
papers by Randol Contreras, using data from New York, and Philippe
Bourgois and Laurie Kain Hart, using data from Philadelphia,
examine the social logic of violence in street-level narcotics
markets. Both draw on heavily on Collins' microsociological account
of the features of social situations that tend to engender
violence. In the second section of the book, a study by Paul
DiMaggio, Clark Bernier, Charles Heckscher, and David Mimno tackles
the question of whether electronically mediated interaction
exhibits the ritualization which, according to Collins, is a common
feature of face-to-face encounters. Their results suggest that, at
least under certain circumstances, digitally mediated interaction
may foster social solidarity in a manner similar to face-to-face
interaction. A chapter by Simone Polillo picks up from Collins'
work in the sociology of knowledge, examining multiple ways in
which social network structures can engender intellectual
creativity. The third section of the book contains papers that
critically but sympathetically assess key tenets of microsociology.
Jonathan H. Turner argues that the radically microsociological
perspective developed by Collins will better serve the social
scientific project if it is embedded in a more comprehensive
paradigm, one that acknowledges the macro- and meso-levels of
social and cultural life. A chapter by David Gibson presents
empirical analyses of decisions by state leaders concerning whether
or not to use force to deal with internal or external foes,
suggesting that Collins' model of interaction ritual can only
partially illuminate the dynamics of these highly consequential
political moments. Work by Erika Summers-Effler and Justin Van Ness
seeks to systematize and broaden the scope of Collins' theory of
interaction, by including in it encounters that depart from the
ritual model in important ways. In a final, reflective chapter,
Randall Collins himself highlights the promise and future of
microsociology. Clearly written, these pieces offer cutting-edge
thinking on some of the crucial theoretical and empirical issues in
sociology today.
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