Randall Collins - Publications

Publications

• 2008. Violence. A micro-sociological Theory. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-13313-1
• 2004. Interaction Ritual Chains. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-12389-6
• 2004. “Rituals of solidarity and security, and processes of mass hysteria, in the wake of terrorist attack.” Sociological Theory 21
• 2003. “A Network-location Theory of Culture.” Sociological Theory 21: 69-73.
• 2003. “Fuller, Kuhn, and the Emergent Attention Space of Reflexive Studies of Science.” Social Epistemology 17: 145-150.
• 2003. “Sociology and Philosophy.” in Craig Calhoun, Chris Rojek, and Bryan Turner (eds.) International Handbook of Sociology. London: Sage.
• 2003. “The Durkheimian Movement in France and in World Sociology.” in Jeffrey Alexander and Phil Smith (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim. Cambridge University Press.
• 2003. “Mann’s Transformation of the Classical Sociological Traditions.” In John A. Hall and Ralph Schroeder (eds.), An Anatomy of Power: The Social Theory of Michael Mann. Cambridge University Press.
• 2002. “Introduction.” with Mauro Guillen, Paula England, Marshall Meyer. in The New Economic Sociology: Developments in an Emerging Field. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
• 2002. "On the Acrimoniousness of Intellectual Disputes". Common Knowledge 8: 47-70.
• 2002. "Geopolitics in an Era of Internationalism." Social Evolution and History Journal. Vol. 1, pp. 118–139.
• 2002. "Conflict Theory and Interaction Ritual: the Microfoundations of Conflict Theory." (with Jörg Rössel) In Jonathan Turner (ed.), Handbook of Sociological Theories. New York: Plenum Publishers.
• 2002. "Credential Inflation and the Future of Universities." In Steve Brint (ed.), The Future of the City of Intellect. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Excerpted in Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 2002.
• 2002. "Black’s Contributions to a General Theory of Conflict." Contemporary Sociology 31: 655-58.
• 2000. "Comparative and historical patterns of education." In Maureen T. Hallinan (ed.), Handbook of the Sociology of Education. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 213-239.
• 2000. "Situational Stratification: A Micro-macro Theory of Inequality." Sociological Theory 18
• 1999. "Macro-History: Essays in Sociology of the Long Run." Stanford: Stanford University Press.
• 1998. "The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change." Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University. ISBN 0-674-00187-7 (Russian edition 2002. Italian, Chinese, and Spanish editions forthcoming. Esmail Yazdanpour is now translating it into Persian.)
• 1998. "Democratization in World-Historical Perspective." In Ralph Schroeder Weberian Political Sociology: Democracy, Nationalism and Modernization. London: Macmillan.
• 1985-1994. "Four Sociological Traditions." Oxford University Press, Inc. ISBN 0-19-508208-7.
• 1979. "The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification." New York : Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-181360-6.
• 1975. "Conflict Sociology: Toward an Explanatory Science." New York: Academic.