Chapter 5: Emotion and Interaction Ritual Chains

  1. Collins’s Perspective: Science, Emotion and Exchange

A.  Scientific Theory

(1.)  Emotion

(2.)  Culture

(3.)  Creative Synthesis

B.  Exchange and Emotion

(1.)  Critiques of Exchange Theory

(2.)  Emotional Energy

C.  The Situation

(1.)  The Individual and Social Identities

(2.)  The Individual and History

(3.)  Interactions and Social Structure

  1. Concepts and Theory: Interaction Ritual Chains (IRC’s)

A.  Rituals

(1.)  Emotional Effervescence

  1. Bodily Co-Presence
  2. Barrier to Outsiders
  3. Mutual Focus of Attention
  4. Shared Emotional Mood

(2.)  Interrelated Group Effects

  1. Solidarity
  2. Group Symbols
  3. Standards of Morality

B.  The Micro-Macro Link

(1.)  Emotional Energy

(2.)  Cultural Capital

  1. Generalized Cultural Capital
  2. Particularized Cultural Capital
  3. Reputational Capital

(3.)  Market Opportunities

C.  The Case of 9/11

(1.)  Initial Shock

(2.)  Symbolic Displays

(3.)  Hysteria Zone

(4.)  Gradual Decline

  1. Concepts and Theory: The Micro-Level Production of Stratification

A.  The Vertical Dimension of Power

(1.)  Principle of Order Giving

(2.)  Ritual Coercion

(3.)  Anticipatory Socialization

(4.)  Bureaucratic Personality

B.  The Horizontal Dimension of Networks

(1.)  Diversity of threads

(2.)  Density of weave

(3.)  Ritual Dimensions of Class Structure

  1. Power High: Order Givers
  2. Power Low: Order Takers
  3. Ritual Density: High
  4. Ritual Density: Low
  5. Concepts and Theory: Sociology of Creativity

A.  The Sense of Truth

B.  Academic Rituals

(1.)  Serious Talk

(2.)  Use of Texts

(3.)  Emotional Energy

(4.)  Public Interaction

C.  Sociology of Thinking

(1.)  Solitude and Interaction

(2.)  Specific kinds of IRC’s

(3.)  Confrontation

(4.)  Small numbers