Conflict Sociology: A Sociological Classic Updated / Edition 1

by Randall Collins, Stephen K. Sanderson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594516016
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/30/2010
Series:	Studies in Comparative Social Science
Edition description:	Abridged
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Randall Collins, recognized as one of the world’s leading sociological theorists and comparative-historical sociologists, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He has authored a dozen books and well over one hundred articles on all aspects of sociological theory.

Stephen K. Sanderson is currently a visiting professor of sociology at the University of California, Riverside, where he specializes in comparative-historical sociology, sociological theory, and evolutionary sociology. He is the author or editor of ten books in sixteen editions, among them Evolutionism and Its Critics: Deconstructing and Reconstructing an Evolutionary Interpretation of Human Society (Paradigm, 2007) and Revolutions: A Worldwide Introduction to Social and Political Contention (2nd ed., Paradigm, 2010).

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface vii

Authors Original Preface ix

Chapter 1 The Bases of Scientific Sociology 1

Update 2009 7

Chapter 2 A Theory of Stratification 13

The Basics of Conflict Theory 19

Occupational Influences on Class Cultures 23

A Summary of Class Cultures 27

Conclusion 42

Update 2009 44

Chapter 3 Microsociology and Stratification 54

The Ethology of Human Animals 55

Human Language and Consciousness 64

An Experiential Foundation of Stratification 70

Appendix: Summary of Causal Propositions 103

Update 2009 110

Chapter 4 A Short History of Deference and Demeanor (with Joan Annett) 115

Types of Societies 121

Status Competition in America 136

The Evaporation of Deference Cultures 155

Appendix: Summary of Causal Principles 159

Update 2009 161

Chapter 5 State, Economy, and Ideology 167

The Organization of Violence 170

Technology and Military Organization 173

Ideology, Ritual, and Control 181

The Structure of Democracy 205

The Process of Historical Change 209

Update 2009 211

Chapter 6 Inequalities of Wealth 229

Market Models 230

Lenski's Conflict Theory 235

The Marxian Model 237

Toward a Theory of Wealth inequality 239

Appendix: Summary of Causal Principles 246

Update 2009 249

Afterword 258

Educational Systems and Educational Credentialism 258

A Conflict Theory of Organizations 263

A Sociology of the Intellectual World 265

Historical Change 269

Gender and the Family 273

Religion 273

Collins's Microsociological Turn 274

Linking Micro with Macro 278

Conclusion 279

References 281

Index 301

Editorial Reviews

This volume merits careful and critical inclusion in sociology’s lexicon of intellectual interpretation. A significant literary addition. Highly recommended.”
—CHOICE

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