Randall Collins (born July 29, 1941) 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.[1] Collins is currently the Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor of Sociology, Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a leading contemporary social theorist whose areas of expertise include the macro-historical sociology of political and economic change; micro-sociology, including face-to-face interaction; and the sociology of intellectuals and social conflict.[2] Collins's publications include The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change (1998), which analyzes the network of philosophers and mathematicians for over two thousand years in both Asian and Western societies. His current research involves macro patterns of violence including contemporary war, as well as solutions to police violence. He is considered to be one of the leading non-Marxist conflict theorists in the United States, and served as the president of the American Sociological Association from 2010 to 2011.[3][4]
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RandallCollins (born July 29, 1941) is an American sociologist who has been influential in both his teaching and writing. He has taught in many notable...
University of California Press. RandallCollins, 1981. "Crises and Declines in Credential Systems," in RandallCollins, Sociology since Mid-century: Essays...
RandallCollins, The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change. Harvard University Press, 2000, page 182. RandallCollins, The...
sociological theorists include Talcott Parsons, Robert K. Merton, RandallCollins, James Samuel Coleman, Peter Blau, Niklas Luhmann, Immanuel Wallerstein...
The Downfall of Capitalism and Communism. In 1980 the sociologist RandallCollins presented his paper "The future decline of the Russian empire" at the...
Rampage Killers: Deep Backstage, Hidden Arsenal, Clandestine Excitement, RandallCollins, The Sociological Eye, September 1, 2012 "Definitions of 'mass shooting'...
theorists include Barry Barnes, David Bloor, Sal Restivo, RandallCollins, Gaston Bachelard, Harry Collins, Karin Knorr Cetina, Paul Feyerabend, Steve Fuller...
multi-paradigmatic in line with the contentions of classical social theory. RandallCollins' well-cited survey of sociological theory retroactively labels various...
music. "Cool Water", by Bob Nolan, performed by Tim Blake Nelson "RandallCollins", by Norman Blake "Surly Joe the Gambler", based on "Little Joe the...
experience during interactions. Subsequent to these developments, RandallCollins (2004) formulated his interaction ritual theory by drawing on Durkheim's...
training' Alternate practices included cutting off a part of one's body. RandallCollins (2000), The sociology of philosophies: a global theory of intellectual...
and Central Asia as Islam became the state religion. According to RandallCollins, Buddhism was already declining in India by the 12th century, but with...
Turner emphasized the symbolic and cultural aspects of ritual, while RandallCollins explored its psychological and emotional dimensions. In recent years...
social status. RandallCollins contributed the idea of credentialism to the study of class-based differences in educational attainment. Collins maintains that...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 37, 147. ISBN 0226742210. RandallCollins, The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change...
Brahmins and their influence in socio-political process. According to RandallCollins, Richard Gombrich and other scholars, Buddhism's rise or decline is...
Piven 2007 Arne L. Kalleberg 2008 Patricia Hill Collins 2009 Evelyn Nakano Glenn 2010 RandallCollins 2011 Erik Olin Wright 2012 Cecilia L. Ridgeway 2013...
Central Philosophy of Buddhism, The University Press of Hawaii, p. 185. RandallCollins (2000), The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual...
aspirations, has been central to her most recent work. Émile Durkheim RandallCollins Jim Coleman John W. Meyer Raymond Boudon Pierre Bourdieu Basil Bernstein...
Guillén, RandallCollins, Paula England, and Marshall Meyer, "The Revival of Economic Sociology," pp. 1-32, in Mauro F. Guillén, RandallCollins, Paula...
on the previously patrilineal communities of the area, sociologist RandallCollins thinks it is unlikely that such a change could be imposed and says...
PMID 1448573. "Harassment Law and Legal Definition". uslegal.com. USLegal. RandallCollins, Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory (2009) Simons, Kenneth W. (January...
Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1987. Guitarist Randall Hall, at Collins' insistence, also joined the reconstituted Skynyrd (Collins was at this point paralyzed from...
social constructionist accounts. Sociologists such as Sal Restivo and RandallCollins, mathematicians including Reuben Hersh and Philip J. Davis, and philosophers...
Mittal, Gene Thursby), Routledge, ISBN 978-0415772273, pages 38–39 RandallCollins (1998), The Sociology of Philosophies, Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0674001879...
Patricia Hill Collins (born May 1, 1948) is an American academic specializing in race, class, and gender. She is a distinguished university professor...
as Ibn Khaldun, Alexandre Deulofeu, Jack Goldstone, Sergey Kapitsa, RandallCollins, John Komlos, and Andrey Korotayev. Many historical processes are dynamic...
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