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This introduction to a special issue outlines the significance of Randall Collins’s contribution to sociology. The first section briefly reviews Collins’s main books and assesses their impact on social science. The second section offers a summary overview of the papers that comprise the special issue.

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Randall Collins Emile Durkheim Erving Goffman theory Max Weber

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Collins

(2008) Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Collins

(1979) The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification. New York: The Academic Press.

Weininger

Lareau

Lizardo

(eds) (2019) Ritual, Emotion, Violence: Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins. London: Routledge.

Introduction to special issue: The sociology of Randall Collins

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