Description

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.

• Brings a classic sociological work up to date by examining the most recent work of the author and other sociologists working in the same sociological tradition
• Provides a new afterword that discusses other aspects of Collins’s work and tries to show the connections between the two halves of Collins’s work, his macrosociology and his microsociology
• Critically reflects on Collins’s new microsociology by raising a series of penetrating questions about it

Author Info

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 Professor of Sociology at the University of California–Riverside. He is a specialist in sociological theory and comparative and historical sociologyl and is one of the leading sociologists to develop a Darwinian understanding of human society. He is the author of numerous articles and many books, including Evolutionism and Its Critics (Paradigm 2007).

Reviews

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