互动仪式链

by Randall Collins

《互动仪式链》是当代美国著名社会学家兰德尔·柯林斯（Randall Collins, 1941—）积多年研究新推出的一部社会学理论力作。在此书中，他结合相关的社会学理论传统，系统阐述了互动仪式链理论的渊源、构成要素、运转机制及其应用。通过互动仪式链模型，柯林斯把微观分析又扩展到了宏观层次，从而对社会分层、社会运动与思潮、社会冲突、思想发展及知识分子等问题提供了新的理论解释。柯林斯强调的以微观为基础、微观分析与宏观分析相结合观点代表了学术界的一种新的综合性的理论倾向，为许多社会学问题提供了新的分析视角。他也澄清了社会学传统研究一直忽视情感的问题。

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About the author

Dr. Randall Collins is an American sociologist who has been influential in both his teaching and writing. He has taught in many notable universities around the world and his academic works have been translated into various languages. Collins is currently Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a leading contemporary social theorist whose areas of expertise include the macro-historical sociology of political and economic change; micro-sociology, including face-to-face interaction;and the sociology of intellectuals and social conflict. He has devoted much of his career and research to study society, how is it created and destroyed through emotional behaviors of human beings. He is considered to be one of the leading non-Marxist conflict theorists in the United States, and served as the president of the American Sociological Association from 2010 to 2011.

Dr. Collins' first position in academia was at UC Berkeley, followed by many other universities including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, followed by the UC San Diego, the University of Virginia, then UC Riverside, and finally the University of Pennsylvania. He took intermittent breaks from academia, as a novelist, and as a freelance scholar. He has also been a visiting professor at Chicago, Harvard, and Cambridge, as well as various schools in Europe, Japan, and China. Collins has published almost one hundred articles since finishing his undergraduate education. He has also written and contributed to several books with a range of topics such as the discovery of society to the sociology of marriage and family life.

Dr. Collins grew up in a slew of different cities and countries, his father being a diplomat (and possible spy) with the US State Department during the Cold War. They lived in Germany immediately following World War II, and later in Moscow, among other places such as Uruguay.