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This sequel to Randall Collins' world-influential micro-sociology
of violence introduces the question of time-dynamics: what
determines how long conflict lasts and how much damage it does.
Inequality and hostility are not enough to explain when and where
violence breaks out. Time-dynamics are the time-bubbles when people
are most nationalistic; the hours after a protest starts when
violence is most likely to happen. Ranging from the three months of
nationalism and hysteria after 9/11 to the assault on the Capitol
in 2021, Randall Collins shows what makes some protests more
violent than others and why some revolutions are swift and
non-violent tipping-points while others devolve into lengthy civil
wars. Winning or losing are emotional processes, continuing in the
era of computerized war, while high-tech spawns terrorist tactics
of hiding in the civilian population and using cheap features of
the Internet as substitutes for military organization.
Nevertheless, Explosive Conflict offers some optimistic discoveries
on clues to mass rampages and heading off police atrocities, with
practical lessons from time-dynamics of violence.
This new edition is a substantial abridgment and update of Randall
Collins 's 1975 classic, "Conflict Sociology." The first edition
represented the most powerful and comprehensive statement of
conflict theory in its time. Here, Sanderson has retained the core
chapters and added discussions on Collins 's and others work in
recent years. An afterword summarizes Collins 's latest forays into
microsociological theorizing and attempts to demonstrate how his
newer microsociology and older macrosociology are connected.
What is charisma? And how does it generate influence and power?
World-renowned sociologist Randall Collins explores these and many
other questions in a highly readable exploration of the various
forms of charisma and how charisma elevated Jesus, Cleopatra,
Lawrence of Arabia, Queen Elizabeth, Hitler, Churchill, Franklin
and Eleanor Roosevelt, Madame Mao Zedong, and others. He explores
four types of charisma: frontstage, backstage, success-magic, and
reputational charisma. Not everyone has the same kind of charisma
and Collin's identifies important differences and their relations
to power. The book exemplifies Collin's sophisticated
micro-sociology in accessible and compelling prose, quietly
building subtle matrices of analysis that show how sociology
unveils hidden discoveries.
What is charisma? And how does it generate influence and power?
World-renowned sociologist Randall Collins explores these and many
other questions in a highly readable exploration of the various
forms of charisma and how charisma elevated Jesus, Cleopatra,
Lawrence of Arabia, Queen Elizabeth, Hitler, Churchill, Franklin
and Eleanor Roosevelt, Madame Mao Zedong, and others. He explores
four types of charisma: frontstage, backstage, success-magic, and
reputational charisma. Not everyone has the same kind of charisma
and Collin's identifies important differences and their relations
to power. The book exemplifies Collin's sophisticated
micro-sociology in accessible and compelling prose, quietly
building subtle matrices of analysis that show how sociology
unveils hidden discoveries.
Sex, smoking, and social stratification are three very different
social phenomena. And yet, argues sociologist Randall Collins, they
and much else in our social lives are driven by a common force:
interaction rituals. "Interaction Ritual Chains" is a major work of
sociological theory that attempts to develop a "radical
microsociology." It proposes that successful rituals create symbols
of group membership and pump up individuals with emotional energy,
while failed rituals drain emotional energy. Each person flows from
situation to situation, drawn to those interactions where their
cultural capital gives them the best emotional energy payoff.
Thinking, too, can be explained by the internalization of
conversations within the flow of situations; individual selves are
thoroughly and continually social, constructed from the outside
in.
The first half of "Interaction Ritual Chains" is based on the
classic analyses of Durkheim, Mead, and Goffman and draws on
micro-sociological research on conversation, bodily rhythms,
emotions, and intellectual creativity. The second half discusses
how such activities as sex, smoking, and social stratification are
shaped by interaction ritual chains. For example, the book
addresses the emotional and symbolic nature of sexual exchanges of
all sorts--from hand-holding to masturbation to sexual
relationships with prostitutes--while describing the interaction
rituals they involve. This book will appeal not only to
psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists, but to those in
fields as diverse as human sexuality, religious studies, and
literary theory.
Randall Collins gehört zu den produktivsten und originellsten
soziologischen Theoretikern der Gegenwart. In seinem Werk verbindet
er eine an die Traditionslinien von Marx und Weber anknüpfende
meso- und makrosoziologische Konflikttheorie mit einer
emotionssoziologisch fundierten Interaktionstheorie. Auf dieser
theoretischen Grundlage hat er inspirierende Beiträge zu
unterschiedlichen soziologischen Forschungsfeldern formuliert.
Seine Publikationen zur sozialen Ungleichheit, zur
Wissenschaftssoziologie, zur Entstehung und Dynamik des
Kapitalismus und zur langfristigen territorialen Macht von Staaten
haben zu fruchtbringenden Diskussionen geführt. Dieser Band
versammelt eine Auswahl der wichtigsten und interessantesten
Beiträge von Collins.
In the popular misconception fostered by blockbuster action
movies and best-selling thrillers--not to mention conventional
explanations by social scientists--violence is easy under certain
conditions, like poverty, racial or ideological hatreds, or family
pathologies. Randall Collins challenges this view in "Violence,"
arguing that violent confrontation goes against human physiological
hardwiring. It is the exception, not the rule--regardless of the
underlying conditions or motivations.
Collins gives a comprehensive explanation of violence and its
dynamics, drawing upon video footage, cutting-edge forensics, and
ethnography to examine violent situations up close as they actually
happen--and his conclusions will surprise you. Violence comes
neither easily nor automatically. Antagonists are by nature tense
and fearful, and their confrontational anxieties put up a powerful
emotional barrier against violence. Collins guides readers into the
very real and disturbing worlds of human discord--from domestic
abuse and schoolyard bullying to muggings, violent sports, and
armed conflicts. He reveals how the fog of war pervades all violent
encounters, limiting people mostly to bluster and bluff, and making
violence, when it does occur, largely incompetent, often injuring
someone other than its intended target. Collins shows how violence
can be triggered only when pathways around this emotional barrier
are presented. He explains why violence typically comes in the form
of atrocities against the weak, ritualized exhibitions before
audiences, or clandestine acts of terrorism and murder--and why a
small number of individuals are competent at violence.
"Violence" overturns standard views about the root causes of
violence and offers solutions for confronting it in the future.
This book explores the accomplishments of the golden age of
"macrohistory," the sociologically informed analysis of long-term
patterns of political, economic, and social change that has reached
new heights of sophistication in the last decades of the twentieth
century.
It describes the scholarly revolution that has taken place in the
Marxian-inspired theory of revolutions, the shift to a
state-breakdown model in which revolutions, rather than bubbling up
from discontent below, start at the top in the fiscal strains of
the state. The author links revolutions to military-centered
transformations of the state, and reviews how he used this theory
in the early 1980s to predict the breakdown of the Soviet empire.
He goes on to show the implications of viewing states and societies
from the outside in, including the geopolitical patterns that
affect the legitimacy of dominant ethnic groups and thus determine
the direction of ethnic assimilation or fragmentation. Another
application is the author's new theory of democratization, which
asserts that democracy depends not merely on a widening of the
franchise but on a geopolitical pattern favoring federated
structures of collegially shared power.
Using this new theoretical tool, the author argues that Anglophone
scholars have polemically misinterpreted German history, and that
the roots of the Holocaust cannot be determined by German-bashing
but must be attributed to processes that affect all of us. Other
essays generalize about the historical dynamics and transformations
of markets. Going beyond Weber's Eurocentric model, the author
proposes a more general theory that explains the origins of
capitalism in Japan on an independent but parallel path.
This new edition is a substantial abridgment and update of Randall
Collins 's 1975 classic, "Conflict Sociology." The first edition
represented the most powerful and comprehensive statement of
conflict theory in its time. Here, Sanderson has retained the core
chapters and added discussions on Collins 's and others work in
recent years. An afterword summarizes Collins 's latest forays into
microsociological theorizing and attempts to demonstrate how his
newer microsociology and older macrosociology are connected.
Randall Collins traces the movement of philosophical thought in
ancient Greece, China, Japan, India, the medieval Islamic and
Jewish world, medieval Christendom, and modern Europe. What emerges
from this history is a social theory of intellectual change, one
that avoids both the reduction of ideas to the influences of
society at large and the purely contingent local construction of
meanings. Instead, Collins focuses on the social locations where
sophisticated ideas are formed: the patterns of intellectual
networks and their inner divisions and conflicts.
The Credential Society is a classic on the role of higher education
in American society and an essential text for understanding the
reproduction of inequality. Controversial at the time, Randall
Collins's claim that the expansion of American education has not
increased social mobility, but rather created a cycle of credential
inflation, has proven remarkably prescient. Collins shows how
credential inflation stymies mass education's promises of upward
mobility. An unacknowledged spiral of the rising production of
credentials and job requirements was brought about by the expansion
of high school and then undergraduate education, with consequences
including grade inflation, rising educational costs, and misleading
job promises dangled by for-profit schools. Collins examines
medicine, law, and engineering to show the ways in which
credentialing closed these high-status professions to new arrivals.
In an era marked by the devaluation of high school diplomas, outcry
about the value of expensive undergraduate degrees, and the
proliferation of new professional degrees like the MBA, The
Credential Society has more than stood the test of time. In a new
preface, Collins discusses recent developments, debunks claims that
credentialization is driven by technological change, and points to
alternative pathways for the future of education.
This book explores the accomplishments of the golden age of
"macrohistory," the sociologically informed analysis of long-term
patterns of political, economic, and social change that has reached
new heights of sophistication in the last decades of the twentieth
century.
It describes the scholarly revolution that has taken place in the
Marxian-inspired theory of revolutions, the shift to a
state-breakdown model in which revolutions, rather than bubbling up
from discontent below, start at the top in the fiscal strains of
the state. The author links revolutions to military-centered
transformations of the state, and reviews how he used this theory
in the early 1980s to predict the breakdown of the Soviet empire.
He goes on to show the implications of viewing states and societies
from the outside in, including the geopolitical patterns that
affect the legitimacy of dominant ethnic groups and thus determine
the direction of ethnic assimilation or fragmentation. Another
application is the author's new theory of democratization, which
asserts that democracy depends not merely on a widening of the
franchise but on a geopolitical pattern favoring federated
structures of collegially shared power.
Using this new theoretical tool, the author argues that Anglophone
scholars have polemically misinterpreted German history, and that
the roots of the Holocaust cannot be determined by German-bashing
but must be attributed to processes that affect all of us. Other
essays generalize about the historical dynamics and transformations
of markets. Going beyond Weber's Eurocentric model, the author
proposes a more general theory that explains the origins of
capitalism in Japan on an independent but parallel path.
The Credential Society is a classic on the role of higher education
in American society and an essential text for understanding the
reproduction of inequality. Controversial at the time, Randall
Collins’s claim that the expansion of American education has not
increased social mobility, but rather created a cycle of credential
inflation, has proven remarkably prescient. Collins shows how
credential inflation stymies mass education’s promises of upward
mobility. An unacknowledged spiral of the rising production of
credentials and job requirements was brought about by the expansion
of high school and then undergraduate education, with consequences
including grade inflation, rising educational costs, and misleading
job promises dangled by for-profit schools. Collins examines
medicine, law, and engineering to show the ways in which
credentialing closed these high-status professions to new arrivals.
In an era marked by the devaluation of high school diplomas, outcry
about the value of expensive undergraduate degrees, and the
proliferation of new professional degrees like the MBA, The
Credential Society has more than stood the test of time. In a new
preface, Collins discusses recent developments, debunks claims that
credentialization is driven by technological change, and points to
alternative pathways for the future of education.
This sequel to Randall Collins' world-influential micro-sociology
of violence introduces the question of time-dynamics: what
determines how long conflict lasts and how much damage it does.
Inequality and hostility are not enough to explain when and where
violence breaks out. Time-dynamics are the time-bubbles when people
are most nationalistic; the hours after a protest starts when
violence is most likely to happen. Ranging from the three months of
nationalism and hysteria after 9/11 to the assault on the Capitol
in 2021, Randall Collins shows what makes some protests more
violent than others and why some revolutions are swift and
non-violent tipping-points while others devolve into lengthy civil
wars. Winning or losing are emotional processes, continuing in the
era of computerized war, while high-tech spawns terrorist tactics
of hiding in the civilian population and using cheap features of
the Internet as substitutes for military organization.
Nevertheless, Explosive Conflict offers some optimistic discoveries
on clues to mass rampages and heading off police atrocities, with
practical lessons from time-dynamics of violence.
A concise overview of sociology's greatest classic thinker. Weber
emerges as a multisided intellectual personality, whose
intellectual ambivalence is related to a neurotic breakdown in mid
career and to the compromises he was forced to make among the
conflicting politievanscal and intellectual currents of his time.
Here we see what kinds of philosophical idealism Weber favored and
what kinds he rejected, as well as his position on the "battle of
methods" among the economists of his day. Weber's famous
"Protestant Ethic" thesis is put in proper perspective as an
intellectual gambit in one particular period of his life, rather
than as his central achievement. Weber's overall view of social
change is examined, drawing on several of his crucial but
little-known works, on the sociology of ancient agrarian societies
and on the long chain of organizational conditions that finally led
to modern capitalism. Also treated are Weber's major works on the
sociology of religion and his contributions to systematic theory,
especially social stratification. The many strands of Weber's
theorizing, and his tremendous scope of comparisons across world
history, are here brought into a clear and manageable focus.
"Randall Collins is the leading sociological theorist of his
generation. He has also done more than anyone else to use and
develop Weberian sociology. Accordingly we expect much from Collins
on Weber and Max Weber does not disappoint." --Whitney Pope,
Indiana University "A lively, efficient, reliable interpretation,
captivating for the novice, provocative for the expert. . . .
Typical Collins." --Alan Sica, University of Kansas "A good
introductory survey of Weber's major writings. It is interesting
reading and highly informative." --Contemporary Sociology "A good
capsule biography . . . very readable . . . honors clarity, style,
and the value of popular understanding." --The Madison Independent
Books in Review "Ideal for an introductory course on Weber."
--Ethics
A concise overview of sociology's greatest classic thinker. Weber
emerges as a multisided intellectual personality, whose
intellectual ambivalence is related to a neurotic breakdown in mid
career and to the compromises he was forced to make among the
conflicting politievanscal and intellectual currents of his time.
Here we see what kinds of philosophical idealism Weber favored and
what kinds he rejected, as well as his position on the "battle of
methods" among the economists of his day. Weber's famous
"Protestant Ethic" thesis is put in proper perspective as an
intellectual gambit in one particular period of his life, rather
than as his central achievement. Weber's overall view of social
change is examined, drawing on several of his crucial but
little-known works, on the sociology of ancient agrarian societies
and on the long chain of organizational conditions that finally led
to modern capitalism. Also treated are Weber's major works on the
sociology of religion and his contributions to systematic theory,
especially social stratification. The many strands of Weber's
theorizing, and his tremendous scope of comparisons across world
history, are here brought into a clear and manageable focus.
"Randall Collins is the leading sociological theorist of his
generation. He has also done more than anyone else to use and
develop Weberian sociology. Accordingly we expect much from Collins
on Weber and Max Weber does not disappoint." --Whitney Pope,
Indiana University "A lively, efficient, reliable interpretation,
captivating for the novice, provocative for the expert. . . .
Typical Collins." --Alan Sica, University of Kansas "A good
introductory survey of Weber's major writings. It is interesting
reading and highly informative." --Contemporary Sociology "A good
capsule biography . . . very readable . . . honors clarity, style,
and the value of popular understanding." --The Madison Independent
Books in Review "Ideal for an introductory course on Weber."
--Ethics
Although he is undoubtedly one of the most important sociologists of all time, this text argues that much of Weber's work has been misunderstood and many of his most notable theories neglected or even overlooked. A new interpretation of his works is accordingly offered by the author herein.
Now including material on the rational choice/utilitarian traditionIn this updated edition of Three Sociological Traditions, Randall Collins provides a guide to the development of modern sociology. Explaining in a brief, readable format the four main schools of sociological thought, he presents a concise intellectual history of the development of sociology. Widely adopted as either a main or supplementary text, this book presents clearly the conflict tradition of Marx and Weber, the ritual solidarity tradition of Durkheim, and the microinteractionist tradition of Mead, Blumer, and Garfinkel, andDSnew in this editionDSthe rational choice/utilitarian tradition. One of the most lively and exciting writers in sociology, Randall Collins introduces students to the roots of social theory, indicating areas where progress has been made in our understanding, as well as those areas where controversy still exists. Students will find Four Sociological Traditions a fresh, thorough, and thought-provoking examination.
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