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King, Anthony (2019) Emotion, interaction and the structure-agency problem: building on the sociology of Randall Collins. Thesis Eleven, 154 (1). pp. 38-51. doi:10.1177/0725513619874929 ISSN 0725-5136.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0725513619874929
Abstract
Sociology today faces a number of serious challenges to its integrity as a discipline. As a synthesis of Weberian and Durkheimian traditions, the work of Randall Collins represents an innovative vindication of sociology in the early 21st century. This article explores Collins’s interaction ritual theory to demonstrate its contemporary utility. However, to highlight the importance of Collins’s work, it seeks to advance and refine it theoretically. Specifically, it seeks to develop Collins’s argument about the role of emotions and, specifically, effervescence, in rituals. This paper argues that, while important, effervescence alone cannot be sufficient to ensure the conformity which is a typical feature of interaction and essential to explaining social order. Drawing on Goffman, Asch and Scheff, the paper argues that effervescence is underpinned by more robust mechanisms of honour and shame, themselves immediately connected to access to collective goods. In this way, the paper affirms the importance of Randall Collins’s work for sociology today.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Collins, Randall -- Criticism, Textual , Sociologists -- United States, Sociology, Emotions -- Sociological aspects, Social conflict | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Thesis Eleven | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0725-5136 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 October 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 154 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 38-51 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0725513619874929 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | King, A. (2019). Emotion, interaction and the structure-agency problem: Building on the sociology of Randall Collins. Thesis Eleven. Copyright © 2019 The Author. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. Additionally, please provide a link to the appropriate DOI for the published version of the Contribution on the SAGE Journals website https://doi.org/10.1177/0725513619874929 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 19 September 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 19 September 2019 |
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