Conflict Sociology: A Sociological Classic Updated
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Pub. Date: 2009-01-30
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Summary
This new edition is a substantial abridgment and update of Randall Collins's 1975 classic, Conflict Sociology. The first edition represented the most powerful and comprehensive statement of conflict theory in its time. Here, Sanderson has retained the core chapters and added discussions on Collins's and others' work in recent years. An afterword summarizes Collins's latest forays into microsociological theorizing and attempts to demonstrate how his newer microsociology and older macrosociology are connected.
Author Biography
Randall Collins has taught at the University of California, San Diego; the University of Virginia; the University of California, Riverside; and is currently Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Table of Contents
| Editor's Preface | p. vii |
| Author's Original Preface | p. ix |
| The Bases of Scientific Sociology | p. 1 |
| Update 2009 | p. 7 |
| A Theory of Stratification | p. 13 |
| The Basics of Conflict Theory | p. 19 |
| Occupational Influences on Class Cultures | p. 23 |
| A Summary of Class Cultures | p. 27 |
| Conclusion | p. 42 |
| Update 2009 | p. 44 |
| Microsociology and Stratification | p. 54 |
| The Ethology of Human Animals | p. 55 |
| Human Language and Consciousness | p. 64 |
| An Experiential Foundation of Stratification | p. 70 |
| Summary of Causal Propositions | p. 103 |
| Update 2009 | p. 110 |
| A Short History of Deference and Demeanor (with Joan Annett) | p. 115 |
| Types of Societies | p. 121 |
| Status Competition in America | p. 136 |
| The Evaporation of Deference Cultures | p. 155 |
| Summary of Causal Principles | p. 159 |
| Update 2009 | p. 161 |
| State, Economy, and Ideology | p. 167 |
| The Organization of Violence | p. 170 |
| Technology and Military Organization | p. 173 |
| Ideology, Ritual, and Control | p. 181 |
| The Structure of Democracy | p. 205 |
| The Process of Historical Change | p. 209 |
| Update 2009 | p. 211 |
| Inequalities of Wealth | p. 229 |
| Market Models | p. 230 |
| Lenski's Conflict Theory | p. 235 |
| The Marxian Model | p. 237 |
| Toward a Theory of Wealth Inequality | p. 239 |
| Summary of Causal Principles | p. 246 |
| Update 2009 | p. 249 |
| Afterword | p. 258 |
| Educational Systems and Educational Credentialism | p. 258 |
| A Conflict Theory of Organizations | p. 263 |
| A Sociology of the Intellectual World | p. 265 |
| Historical Change | p. 269 |
| Gender and the Family | p. 273 |
| Religion | p. 273 |
| Collins's Microsociological Turn | p. 274 |
| Linking Micro with Macro | p. 278 |
| Conclusion | p. 279 |
| References | p. 281 |
| Index | p. 301 |
| About the Author and Editor | p. 320 |
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