| #965876 in Books | 2005-07-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.14 x1.11 x6.12l,1.42 | File type: PDF | 464 pages||26 of 26 people found the following review helpful.| Ambitious and thoughtful|By S. Sherman|Collins pulls together many of the themes of his earlier works to produce a general theory of social interaction. Basically, humans engage in interaction rituals to attain emotional energy. Some of these interaction rituals are more successful than others. Nearly all have some exclusionary features, and some people are more central to
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 faile...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Interaction Ritual Chains (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology) | Randall Collins. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
