Description
Product ID: | 9780691123899 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Series: | Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology |
Title: | Interaction Ritual Chains |
Authors: | Author: Randall Collins |
Page Count: | 464 |
Subjects: | Cultural studies, Cultural studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Attempts to develop a "radical microsociology". This book proposes that successful rituals create symbols of group membership and pump up individuals with emotional energy, while failed rituals drain emotional energy. 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 failed rituals drain emotional energy. Each person flows from situation to situation, drawn to those interactions where their cultural capital gives them the best emotional energy payoff. Thinking, too, can be explained by the internalization of conversations within the flow of situations; individual selves are thoroughly and continually social, constructed from the outside in. |
Imprint Name: | Princeton University Press |
Publisher Name: | Princeton University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2005-07-25 |