Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education.

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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.

Collins, Randall (1990b): Stratification, Emotional Energy and the Transient Emotions, in: Theodore D. Kemper (Hg.): Research Agendas in the Sociology of Emotions. Albany: State University of New York Press, S. 27-57. Google Scholar.

About Professor Collins. Randall Collins is Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor of Sociology at University of Pennsylvania. He received a B.A. at Harvard 1963 (where he studied with Talcott Parsons); M.A. in psychology at Stanford (1964); and Ph.D. at University of California, Berkeley (1969), where he studied with Herbert Blumer, Erving Goffman, and Reinhard Bendix. His early publications include.

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Interview with Randall Collins by Alair Maclean and James Yocom September 20, 2000 How has your background affected your subsequent theories and work? What kinds of experiences did you have during your upbringing that affected your sociological theories? I grew up in the state department. My father was a foreign service officer. Among my earliest memories is being in Berlin at the end of the.

Dr. Randall Collins is an American sociologist who has been influential in both his teaching and writing. He has taught in many notable universities around the world and his academic works have been translated into various languages. Collins is currently Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a leading contemporary social theorist whose areas of expertise.

Organized along the same lines as Three Sociological Traditions, Four Sociological Traditions is Randall Collins' updated guide to the development of modern sociology. Explaining in a brief, readable format the 4 main schools of sociological thought, this book represents a concise intellectual history of the development of sociology. Widely adopted as either a main or supplemental text, Four.

Randall Collins Books 2. Interaction Ritual Chains Randall Collins. 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.

Abstract: This article applies Elias’s research on the emotional mechanics of civilising processes to the sociology of intellectual life. Randall Collins’s The Sociology of Philosophies (1998), representing the dominant paradigm in this subfield, suffers the same analytic and theoretical problems that Elias dissected in the work of Talcott Parsons, reducing the long-term historical.

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