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  1. John Adamson, ed. The English Civil War: Conflict and Contexts, 1640–49. Problems in Focus (Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), vii+ 344 pp.£ 23.99 paper. Claude Ameline. Traité de la volonté (Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2009), 294 pp. npg. Simon Barton. A History of Spain. 2d ed.(Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), xviii+ 327 pp.£ 16.99 paper. [REVIEW]James P. Pettegrove, Randall Collins Violence & A. Micro - 2010 - The European Legacy 15 (5):705-707.
     
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    Randall Collins: Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008, 553 pp + index. [REVIEW]James Aho - 2013 - Human Studies 36 (1):149-151.
    Randall Collins: Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory Content Type Journal Article Category Book Review Pages 1-3 DOI 10.1007/s10746-011-9203-z Authors James Aho, Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID 83209, USA Journal Human Studies Online ISSN 1572-851X Print ISSN 0163-8548.
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    Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory.Randall Collins - 2009 - Princeton University Press.
    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 (...)
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    Reply to Thesis Eleven symposium.Randall Collins - 2019 - Thesis Eleven 154 (1):124-133.
    Collins comments on status groups, micro-macro links, failures of peace dialogue, violence and confrontational tension/fear, educational credential inflation, creativity in intellectual networks, time-dynamics of nationalism and populism.
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    Sociologizing with Randall Collins: An interview about emotions, violence, attention space and sociology.Don Weenink, Laura Keesman & Alex van der Zeeuw - 2018 - European Journal of Social Theory 21 (2):245-259.
    In the interview in this article, Randall Collins discusses various aspects of his oeuvre. First, he considers why interaction rituals (IRs) in religion are special emotional transformers. This is followed by a discussion of IRs in the digital age and the symbolic and economic power that is required to orchestrate IRs in politics and revolutions. Then comes a discussion of social scientific research into violence, in the past and more recently. The interview continues with a reflection on (...)
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    Three faces of cruelty: Towards a comparative sociology of violence[REVIEW]Randall Collins - 1974 - Theory and Society 1 (4):415-440.
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    Book review: Doing Violence, Making Race: Lynching and White Racial Group Formation in the US South, 1882–1930. [REVIEW]Randall Collins - 2019 - Thesis Eleven 154 (1):134-137.
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    Fear, loathing, and moral qualms on the battlefield.Michael Mann - 2019 - Thesis Eleven 154 (1):11-27.
    Randall Collins is unparalleled as a sociologist of violence. Yet I here take issue with his view, often expressed by scholars, that moral qualms have prevented many modern soldiers or airmen from shooting or killing. Evidence from soldiers and airmen in modern wars shows that they may hesitate momentarily before their first killing, but then killing eases. The tragedy is that qualms only seem to strike soldiers after their war has ended, contributing substantially to Post Traumatic Stress (...)
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    Vigilante violence and “forward panic” in Johannesburg’s townships.Mark Gross - 2016 - Theory and Society 45 (3):239-263.
    Vigilante violence tends to take place in areas or situations in which the state is unable or unwilling to provide for the safety of certain groups. Crime control vigilantism can be understood as an alternative means of controlling crime and providing security where the state does not. The violent punishment inherent in vigilante activity is generally with the ultimate goal of providing safety and security, and thus should theoretically “fit the crime” and not be excessive. However, in many acts (...)
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    The future of interaction rituals: an interview with Randall Collins.Lars E. F. Johannessen & Randall Collins - 2024 - Theory and Society 53 (6):1491-1504.
    This interview with Randall Collins explores the role of interaction rituals (IR) in our increasingly digital world. For Collins, IR is a micro-sociological mechanism that provides both the glue that holds social groups together and the energy that fuels disputes and domination. Crucially, Collins posits that IRs are most effective under face-to-face or “bodily copresent” conditions. The pivotal question of this interview is how well this proposition holds in an age where interaction increasingly takes place through (...)
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    The sociology of philosophies: a global theory of intellectual change.Randall Collins - 1998 - Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
    Through network diagrams and sustained narrative, sociologist Randall Collins traces the development of philosophical thought from ancient Greece to modern ...
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  12. The sociology of philosophies: A précis.Randall Collins - 2000 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 30 (2):157-201.
    cis is presented of Randall Collins's book, The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change. It presents a sociological theory of intellectual networks that connect thinkers in chains of masters and pupils, colleagues and rivals, and of the internalized conversations that constitute the social processes of thinking. The theory is used to analyze long-term developments of the intellectual communities of philosophers in ancient Greece, ancient and medieval China and India, medieval and modern Japan, medieval Islam and (...)
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  13. Civilizations as Zones of Prestige and Social Contact.Randall Collins - 2004 - In Said Amir Arjomand & Edward A. Tiryakian (eds.), Rethinking Civilizational Analysis. Sage Publications. pp. 132--147.
  14. Sociological realism*(1998).Randall Collins - 2003 - In Gerard Delanty & Piet Strydom (eds.), Philosophies of social science: the classic and contemporary readings. Phildelphia: Open University. pp. 456.
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  15. The micro contribution to macro sociology.Randall Collins - 1988 - Sociological Theory 6 (2):242-253.
  16. Upheavals in biological theory undermine sociobiology.Randall Collins - 1983 - Sociological Theory 1:306-318.
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    Toward a Theory of Intellectual Change: The Social Causes of Philosophies.Randall Collins - 1989 - Science, Technology and Human Values 14 (2):107-140.
    Based on historical comparisons among master-pupil chains and other aspects of social networks among philosophers, some prmciples are suggested regarding long-term intellectual change. The higher the eminence ofphilosophers, the more tightly they are connected to mtergenerational chains of other eminent philosophers, and to horizontal circles of the intellectual community. Intellectual creativity proceeds through the contemporaneous development of rival positions, dividing up the available attention space in the intellectual community. Strong thought-communities, those that have strong external support for their institutional base, (...)
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  18. Robber Barons and Politicians in Mathematics: A Conflict Model of Science.Randall Collins & Sal Restivo - 2010 - Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal 25.
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  19. The passing of intellectual generations: Reflections on the death of erving Goffman.Randall Collins - 1986 - Sociological Theory 4 (1):106-113.
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  20. Statistics versus words.Randall Collins - 1984 - Sociological Theory 2:329-362.
    Sociology is split into two antagonistic or mutually oblivious wings: quantitative and nonquantitative. Statistics does not occupy a privileged methodological position vis-a-vis qualitative, verbal sociology. Probability is a theory like any other, and each statistical method contains its particular theoretical bias. Such biases should be brought into the open and tested. Statistics may continue to be useful, though, as a substantive theory of change processes in the social world. A reorientation in our views of statistics may bring mathematical and antimathematical (...)
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  21. Early Goffman and the Analysis of Face-to-Face Interaction.Randall Collins - 1980 - In Jason Ditton (ed.), The View from Goffman. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 52--79.
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    Introduction.Randall Collins - 1984 - Sociological Theory 2:xvii-xxi.
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    Market dynamics as the engine of historical change.Randall Collins - 1990 - Sociological Theory 8 (2):111-135.
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    Mutual halo effects in cultural production: the case of modernist architecture.Randall Collins & Mauro F. Guillén - 2012 - Theory and Society 41 (6):527-556.
    Previous research has suggested that in cultural production fields the concatenation of eminence explains success, defined as influence and innovation. We propose that individuals in fields as diverse as philosophy, literature, mathematics, painting, or architecture gain visibility by cumulating the eminence of others connected to them across and within generations. We draw on interaction ritual chain and social movement theories, and use evidence from the field of modernist architecture, to formulate a model of how networks of very strong ties generate (...)
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    Who has been a successful public intellectual?Randall Collins - 2011 - European Journal of Social Theory 14 (4):437-452.
    A stringent criterion for a public intellectual is proposed: persons who are simultaneously major creative intellectuals, and successful political leaders. Using data from the careers of 2700 philosophers throughout world history, and social scientists in recent centuries, the article concludes that three kinds of political failure by intellectuals are prominent: (1) failure to attain political office; (2) failure while in office; and (3) failure of political influence from adoption of one’s ideas. On the whole, major intellectuals are not good at (...)
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    On the Acrimoniousness of Intellectual Disputes.Randall Collins - 2002 - Common Knowledge 8 (1):47-70.
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  27. Habermas and the Search for Reason.Randall Collins - 1987 - Semiotica 64 (1-2):157-169.
     
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    Durkheim: via Fournier, via Lukes.Randall Collins - 2014 - Theory and Society 43 (6):667-673.
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    Jeffrey Alexander and the search for multi-dimensional theory.Randall Collins - 1985 - Theory and Society 14 (6):877-892.
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  30. A micro-macro theory of intellectual creativity: The case of German idealist philosophy.Randall Collins - 1987 - Sociological Theory 5 (1):47-69.
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    Public Festivals: Ritual Successes, Failures and Mediocrities.Randall Collins - 2013 - Polis: Research and studies on Italian society and politics 27 (1):13-28.
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    Maturation of the state-centered theory of revolution and ideology.Randall Collins - 1993 - Sociological Theory 11 (1):117-128.
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    Preface.Randall Collins - 1984 - Sociological Theory 2.
  34. Mathematics and Civilization.Sal Restivo & Randall Collins - 2010 - Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal 25.
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    Review Symposium. [REVIEW]Randall Collins - 2000 - European Journal of Social Theory 3 (1):111-118.
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    Acknowledgment of external reviewers for 1998.John Brown, Randall Collins, Frank Dobbin, Mike Donaldson, Mustafa Emirbayer, Steven Epstein, Mark Granovetter, Doug Guthrie, Carol Heimer & Philippa Levine - 1999 - Theory and Society 28 (201):201-201.
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    Randall Collins on status groups and statuses.Barry Barnes - 2019 - Thesis Eleven 154 (1):28-37.
    This paper focuses on what could be learned about statuses and status groups from the work of Randall Collins in the 1980s, and in particular from Weberian Sociological Theory (1986). I mention how I myself found this book useful at that time to further my own work in the sociology of science and in sociological theory, and emphasise its value in appreciating the fundamental and irremediable deficiencies of individualistic rational choice theory in both contexts. I go on to (...)
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    Disciplines in the Making.Randall Collins - 2011 - Common Knowledge 17 (1):194-194.
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    For a sociological philosophy.Randall Collins - 1988 - Theory and Society 17 (5):669-702.
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    Fuller, Kuhn, and the emergent attention space of reflexive studies of science.Randall Collins - 2003 - Social Epistemology 17 (2 & 3):147 – 152.
    (2003). Fuller, Kuhn, and the emergent attention space of reflexive studies of science. Social Epistemology: Vol. 17, No. 2-3, pp. 147-152. doi: 10.1080/0269172032000144090.
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    Heroizing and deheroizing Weber.Randall Collins - 1993 - Theory and Society 22 (6):861-870.
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    Is the history of ideas a principled eclecticism?Randall Collins - 2004 - History and Theory 43 (1):136–145.
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    On the Sociology of Intellectual Stagnation: The Late Twentieth Century in Perspective.Randall Collins - 1992 - Theory, Culture and Society 9 (1):73-96.
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    Replies and objections.Randall Collins - 1992 - Social Epistemology 6 (3):267 – 272.
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    Reply to reviewers and symposium commentators.Randall Collins - 2000 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 30 (2):299-325.
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    The dialectic of ideology and technology.Randall Collins - 1978 - Theory and Society 5 (1):135-138.
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    The mega-historians.Randall Collins - 1985 - Sociological Theory 3 (1):114-122.
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    Randall COLLINS, {Interaction Ritual Chains}.Xavier Marquez - forthcoming - Rhuthmos.
    Cette recension a déjà paru sur le blog Abandonedfootnotes. Nous remercions Xavier Marquez de nous avoir autorisé à la reproduire ici. I have previously encouraged people to read Randall Collins' work (his infrequently updated blog, The Sociological Eye, is typically excellent), but it is only recently that I tackled his book on interaction rituals. And despite its forbidding title, seemingly promising a work on some technical topic in the sociology of religion, this is a very good book that (...)
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    Peace and Mind: Seriatim Symposium on Dispute, Conflict, and Enmity.Alick Isaacs, Randall Collins, Bruno Latour, Peter Burke, G. Thomas Tanselle, Alexander Goehr, Anne Carson, Marcel Detienne, Daniel Herwitz, Frank R. Ankersmit, Vicki Hearne, Jeffrey M. Perl & Elizabeth Key Fowden - 2002 - Common Knowledge 8 (1):20-23.
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    Grounding nationalism: Randall Collins and the sociology of nationhood.Siniša Malešević - 2019 - Thesis Eleven 154 (1):108-123.
    This paper explores the ways nationalism has been theorised in classical and contemporary sociology. More specifically, the author analyses the relevance of Randall Collins’s contribution to theories of nationalism. Since Collins’s work is firmly rooted in the classical tradition, including the reinterpretation and synthesis of Weber, Durkheim and Goffman, the first part of this paper zooms in on the classics of sociology and their treatment of nations and nationalism. The second part of the paper outlines the key (...)
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