Interaction Ritual Chains by Collins, Randall -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Part I. Radical Microsociology

Chapter 1: The Program of Interaction Ritual Theory

Situation rather than Individual as Starting Point Conflicting Terminologies Traditions of Ritual Analysis Subcognitive Ritualism Functionalist Ritualism Goffman’s Interaction Ritual The Code-Seeking Program The Cultural Turn Classic Origins of IR Theory in Durkheim’s Sociology of Religion The Significance of Interaction Ritual for General Sociological Theory

Chapter 2: The Mutual-Focus / Emotional-Entrainment Model

Chapter 3: Emotional Energy and the Transient Emotions

Disruptive and Long-Term Emotions, or Dramatic Emotions and Emotional Energy Interaction Ritual as Emotion Transformer Stratified Interaction Rituals Power Rituals Status Rituals Effects on Long-Term Emotions: Emotional Energy Emotion Contest and Conflict Situations Short-Term or Dramatic Emotions Transformations from Short-Term Emotions into Long-Term EE The Stratification of Emotional Energy Appendix: Measuring Emotional Energy and Its Antecedents

Chapter 4: Interaction Markets and Material Markets

Chapter 5: Internalized Symbols and the Social Process of Thinking

Methods for Getting Inside, or Back Outside Intellectual Networks and Creative Thinking Non-Intellectual Thinking Anticipated and Reverberated Talk Thought Chains and Situational Chains The Metaphor of Dialogue among Parts of the Self Verbal Incantations Speeds of Thought Internal Ritual and Self-Solidarity

Part II. Applications

Chapter 6: A Theory of Sexual Interaction

Sex as Individual Pleasure-Seeking Sex as Interaction Ritual Nongenital Sexual Pleasures as Symbolic Targets Sexual Negotiation Scenes rather than Constant Sexual Essences Prestige-Seeking and Public Eroticization

Chapter 7: Situational Stratification

Macro- and Micro-Situational Class, Status, and Power Economic Class as Zelizer Circuits Status Group Boundaries and Categorical Identities Categorical Deference and Situational Deference D-Power and E-Power Historical Change in Situational Stratification An Imagery for Contemporary Interaction

Chapter 9: Individualism and Inwardness as Social Products

The Social Production of Individuality Seven Types of Introversion Work-Obsessed Individuals Socially Excluded Persons Situational Introverts Alienated Introverts Solitary Cultists Intellectual Introverts Neurotic or Hyper-Reflexive Introverts The Micro-History of Introversion The Modern Cult of the Individual

Notes References Index