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Collins, Randall
31.3. Theoriegeschichtlicher Kontext
Spurred on by an admittedly eclectic reading of Max Weber 3 , Collins insists — in opposition to
all presentist myopias — that sociologists with nomological ambitions should turn their attention
to variation in the structure and culture of societies over the longue durée of human history and in
distancing himself from the tendency of mainstream researchers to embrace — if only in the interests
of parsimony — overly simplified models of human action, Collins grounds his theorization in a
complex action-theoretical framework that, in his view, takes into consideration the emotional and
semiotic contours of human action as these are revealed through phenomenological investigation.
This framework, which revolves around the notion of "interaction ritual chains," marries insights from
Goffman 4 and from the Durkheim 5 of The Elementary Forms to produce an image of individuals
as strategic pursuers of "emotional energy" whose interactional choices take shape in an interactional
economy where solidarity is the unit of exchange.
Rather, they superimpose an analytical focus on moral consciousness onto a broadly Weberian
understanding of status group conflict, which Collins sees as a central dynamic in all social life.
31.4. Werke
Publikationen (Bücher) :
• 1968. State and Society, co-editor with Reinhard Bendix et. al. (Boston: Little, Brown; re-issued,
University of California Press, 1974.
• 1972. The Discovery of Society , with Michael Makowsky. New York; Random House; second
edition, 1978; third edition, l983; fourth edition, 1988; fifth edition, 1992; Dutch edition, 1979;
• Italian Edition, 1980; Japanese edition, 1987; Chinese edition, 2004.
• 1975. Conflict Sociology: Toward an Explanatory Science. New York: Academic Press; Italian
edition, 1981; Japanese edition 1991. Partial translations in Romanian, Korean, and Chinese.
• 1979. The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification. New York:
Academic Press; Japanese edition 1984; Spanish edition 1989; Italian edition 1994; Chinese and
Portuguese editions forthcoming; partial translation in Serbo-Croatian.
• 1981. Sociology since Mid-century: Essays in Theory Cumulation. New York, Academic Press;
Italian edition 1993.
• 1982. Sociological Insight: An Introduction to Non-obvious Sociology. New York: Oxford University
Press; Japanese edition 1991; Spanish and Chinese editions forthcoming. Second edition
1992.
• 1985. Three Sociological Traditions. New York: Oxford University Press. Italian edition 1987;Japanese
edition 1990. Second edition Four Sociological Traditions 1994. Mexican edition 2000;
Japanese edition 1997; Italian edition 1999; Portuguese edition 1999.
3 http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Weber
4 http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goffman
5 http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durkheim
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