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    The sociology of philosophies: a global theory of intellectual change.Randall Collins - 1998 - Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
    Through network diagrams and sustained narrative, sociologist Randall Collins traces the development of philosophical thought from ancient Greece to modern ...
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    Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory.Randall Collins - 2009 - Princeton University Press.
    In the popular misconception fostered by blockbuster action movies and best-selling thrillers--not to mention conventional explanations by social scientists--violence is easy under certain conditions, like poverty, racial or ideological hatreds, or family pathologies. Randall Collins challenges this view in Violence, arguing that violent confrontation goes against human physiological hardwiring. It is the exception, not the rule--regardless of the underlying conditions or motivations. -/- Collins gives a comprehensive explanation of violence and its dynamics, drawing upon video footage, cutting-edge forensics, and ethnography (...)
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  3. The sociology of philosophies: A précis.Randall Collins - 2000 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 30 (2):157-201.
    cis is presented of Randall Collins's book, The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change. It presents a sociological theory of intellectual networks that connect thinkers in chains of masters and pupils, colleagues and rivals, and of the internalized conversations that constitute the social processes of thinking. The theory is used to analyze long-term developments of the intellectual communities of philosophers in ancient Greece, ancient and medieval China and India, medieval and modern Japan, medieval Islam and Judaism, medieval (...)
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  4. Upheavals in biological theory undermine sociobiology.Randall Collins - 1983 - Sociological Theory 1:306-318.
  5. The micro contribution to macro sociology.Randall Collins - 1988 - Sociological Theory 6 (2):242-253.
  6. The passing of intellectual generations: Reflections on the death of erving Goffman.Randall Collins - 1986 - Sociological Theory 4 (1):106-113.
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  7. Statistics versus words.Randall Collins - 1984 - Sociological Theory 2:329-362.
    Sociology is split into two antagonistic or mutually oblivious wings: quantitative and nonquantitative. Statistics does not occupy a privileged methodological position vis-a-vis qualitative, verbal sociology. Probability is a theory like any other, and each statistical method contains its particular theoretical bias. Such biases should be brought into the open and tested. Statistics may continue to be useful, though, as a substantive theory of change processes in the social world. A reorientation in our views of statistics may bring mathematical and antimathematical (...)
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    Market dynamics as the engine of historical change.Randall Collins - 1990 - Sociological Theory 8 (2):111-135.
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    Mutual halo effects in cultural production: the case of modernist architecture.Randall Collins & Mauro F. Guillén - 2012 - Theory and Society 41 (6):527-556.
    Previous research has suggested that in cultural production fields the concatenation of eminence explains success, defined as influence and innovation. We propose that individuals in fields as diverse as philosophy, literature, mathematics, painting, or architecture gain visibility by cumulating the eminence of others connected to them across and within generations. We draw on interaction ritual chain and social movement theories, and use evidence from the field of modernist architecture, to formulate a model of how networks of very strong ties generate (...)
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  10. Robber Barons and Politicians in Mathematics: A Conflict Model of Science.Randall Collins & Sal Restivo - 2010 - Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal 25.
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    On the Acrimoniousness of Intellectual Disputes.Randall Collins - 2002 - Common Knowledge 8 (1):47-70.
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    Toward a Theory of Intellectual Change: The Social Causes of Philosophies.Randall Collins - 1989 - Science, Technology and Human Values 14 (2):107-140.
    Based on historical comparisons among master-pupil chains and other aspects of social networks among philosophers, some prmciples are suggested regarding long-term intellectual change. The higher the eminence ofphilosophers, the more tightly they are connected to mtergenerational chains of other eminent philosophers, and to horizontal circles of the intellectual community. Intellectual creativity proceeds through the contemporaneous development of rival positions, dividing up the available attention space in the intellectual community. Strong thought-communities, those that have strong external support for their institutional base, (...)
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  13. Mathematics and Civilization.Sal Restivo & Randall Collins - 2010 - Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal 25.
  14. A micro-macro theory of intellectual creativity: The case of German idealist philosophy.Randall Collins - 1987 - Sociological Theory 5 (1):47-69.
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    Durkheim: via Fournier, via Lukes.Randall Collins - 2014 - Theory and Society 43 (6):667-673.
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  16. Habermas and the Search for Reason.Randall Collins - 1987 - Semiotica 64 (1-2):157-169.
     
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    Jeffrey Alexander and the search for multi-dimensional theory.Randall Collins - 1985 - Theory and Society 14 (6):877-892.
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    Responses to 'pathologies of science'.Sven Andersson, Elazar Barkan, Kenneth Caneva, Randall Collins, Stephen Downes, Henry Etzkowitz, Steve Fuller, David Gorman, Frederick Grinnell, David Hollinger, Anne Holmquest & Charles Willard - 1987 - Social Epistemology 1 (3):249-281.
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    Acknowledgment of external reviewers for 2001.Steven Best, El Paso, James Bohman, Randall Collins, Mark Cooney, Diane Davis, Maria Epele, Capital Federal, Argentina Steven Epstein & Jennifer Jordan - 2002 - Theory and Society 31 (149):149-149.
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    Acknowledgment of external reviewers for 2000.Fred Block, Davis James Bohman, Yang Cao, Randall Collins, Diane Davis, Jay Demerath, Brian Donovan, Steven Epstein, Adrian Favell & David Gartman - 2001 - Theory and Society 30 (1):155-156.
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    Acknowledgment of external reviewers for 1998.John Brown, Randall Collins, Frank Dobbin, Mike Donaldson, Mustafa Emirbayer, Steven Epstein, Mark Granovetter, Doug Guthrie, Carol Heimer & Philippa Levine - 1999 - Theory and Society 28 (201):201-201.
  22. Civilizations as Zones of Prestige and Social Contact.Randall Collins - 2004 - In Said Amir Arjomand & Edward A. Tiryakian (eds.), Rethinking Civilizational Analysis. Sage Publications. pp. 132--147.
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    Disciplines in the Making.Randall Collins - 2011 - Common Knowledge 17 (1):194-194.
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  24. Early Goffman and the Analysis of Face-to-Face Interaction.Randall Collins - 1980 - In Jason Ditton (ed.), The View from Goffman. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 52--79.
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    For a sociological philosophy.Randall Collins - 1988 - Theory and Society 17 (5):669-702.
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    Fuller, Kuhn, and the emergent attention space of reflexive studies of science.Randall Collins - 2003 - Social Epistemology 17 (2 & 3):147 – 152.
    (2003). Fuller, Kuhn, and the emergent attention space of reflexive studies of science. Social Epistemology: Vol. 17, No. 2-3, pp. 147-152. doi: 10.1080/0269172032000144090.
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    Heroizing and deheroizing Weber.Randall Collins - 1993 - Theory and Society 22 (6):861-870.
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    Introduction.Randall Collins - 1984 - Sociological Theory 2:xvii-xxi.
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    Is the history of ideas a principled eclecticism?Randall Collins - 2004 - History and Theory 43 (1):136–145.
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    Maturation of the state-centered theory of revolution and ideology.Randall Collins - 1993 - Sociological Theory 11 (1):117-128.
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    On the Sociology of Intellectual Stagnation: The Late Twentieth Century in Perspective.Randall Collins - 1992 - Theory, Culture and Society 9 (1):73-96.
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    Preface.Randall Collins - 1984 - Sociological Theory 2.
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    Public Festivals: Ritual Successes, Failures and Mediocrities.Randall Collins - 2013 - Polis: Research and studies on Italian society and politics 27 (1):13-28.
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    Replies and objections.Randall Collins - 1992 - Social Epistemology 6 (3):267 – 272.
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    Reply to reviewers and symposium commentators.Randall Collins - 2000 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 30 (2):299-325.
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    Reply to Thesis Eleven symposium.Randall Collins - 2019 - Thesis Eleven 154 (1):124-133.
    Collins comments on status groups, micro-macro links, failures of peace dialogue, violence and confrontational tension/fear, educational credential inflation, creativity in intellectual networks, time-dynamics of nationalism and populism.
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  37. Sociological realism*(1998).Randall Collins - 2003 - In Gerard Delanty & Piet Strydom (eds.), Philosophies of social science: the classic and contemporary readings. Phildelphia: Open University. pp. 456.
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    The dialectic of ideology and technology.Randall Collins - 1978 - Theory and Society 5 (1):135-138.
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    The mega-historians.Randall Collins - 1985 - Sociological Theory 3 (1):114-122.
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    Who has been a successful public intellectual?Randall Collins - 2011 - European Journal of Social Theory 14 (4):437-452.
    A stringent criterion for a public intellectual is proposed: persons who are simultaneously major creative intellectuals, and successful political leaders. Using data from the careers of 2700 philosophers throughout world history, and social scientists in recent centuries, the article concludes that three kinds of political failure by intellectuals are prominent: (1) failure to attain political office; (2) failure while in office; and (3) failure of political influence from adoption of one’s ideas. On the whole, major intellectuals are not good at (...)
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    Peace and Mind: Seriatim Symposium on Dispute, Conflict, and Enmity.Alick Isaacs, Randall Collins, Bruno Latour, Peter Burke, G. Thomas Tanselle, Alexander Goehr, Anne Carson, Marcel Detienne, Daniel Herwitz, Frank R. Ankersmit, Vicki Hearne, Jeffrey M. Perl & Elizabeth Key Fowden - 2002 - Common Knowledge 8 (1):20-23.
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    Three faces of cruelty: Towards a comparative sociology of violence. [REVIEW]Randall Collins - 1974 - Theory and Society 1 (4):415-440.
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    Micro-sociology of mass rampage killings.Randall Collins - 2014 - Revue de Synthèse 135 (4):405-420.
    Spectacular but very rare violent events such as mass killings by habituai non-criminals cannot be explained by factors which are very widespread, such as possession of firearms, being a victim of bullying, an introvert, or a career failure. A stronger clue is clandestine preparation of attack by one or two individuals, against randomly chosen representatives of a hated collective identity. Mass killers develop a deep back-stage, obsessed with planning their attack, overcoming social inferiority and isolation by an emotion of clandestine (...)
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    Able, Kenneth P. Gathering of Angels: Migrating Birds and their Ecology. Ithaca: Cornell Univerity Press, 1999. Pp. xi+ 193. Ariew, Roger. Descartes and the Scholastics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. Pp. xi+ 230. $42.50 (cloth). Basos, Cristiana. Global Responses to AIDS: Science in Emergency. Bloom. [REVIEW]Michel Blay, Randall Collins, Robert P. Crease & W. Michael Dickson - 1999 - Perspectives on Science 7 (2).
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    Book review: Doing Violence, Making Race: Lynching and White Racial Group Formation in the US South, 1882–1930. [REVIEW]Randall Collins - 2019 - Thesis Eleven 154 (1):134-137.
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    Reassessments of sociological history: The empirical validity of the conflict tradition. [REVIEW]Randall Collins - 1974 - Theory and Society 1 (2):147-178.
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    Review Symposium. [REVIEW]Randall Collins - 2000 - European Journal of Social Theory 3 (1):111-118.
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