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Office Address:

University of Pennsylvania Sociology Department 3718 Locust Walk Philadelphia PA 19104-6299 U.S.A. phone: 215-573-6176 FAX 215-573-2081 email: [email protected]

Education :

A.B. Harvard College, 1963

M.A. (psychology) Stanford University, 1964

M.A. (sociology) University of California, Berkeley, 1965

Ph.D. (sociology) University of California, Berkeley, 1969

Employment :

Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 1997-- Member of the Graduate Group in Comparative Literature Member of the Graduate Group in History and Sociology of Science Member of the Graduate Group in Religious Studies Member of the Graduate Group in Criminology Chair of the Graduate Group in Sociology, 2007-09

Professor, University of California, Riverside, 1985-97; Chair of the Department of Sociology, 1987-9

Visiting Professor, Harvard University, fall 1994

Visiting Professor, University of Chicago, spring 1985

Visiting Professor, University of California, Riverside, winter 1984-winter 1985

Visiting Professor, University of Southern California, winter l983 2

Visiting Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, winter 1982

Visiting Professor, University of Arizona, Fall 1981

Private scholar and author, 1982-85

Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia, 1978-82

Private scholar and author, 1977-78

Assistant and Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego, 1969-77

Instructor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1968-69

Acting Instructor, University of California, Berkeley, 1967-68

Courses taught: Sociological theory, social conflict, economic and network sociology, micro-sociology/social interaction, sociology of emotions, sociology of religion, sociology of science, sociology of culture, sociology of sex, social change, historical/comparative sociology, qualitative methods, stratification, formal organizations, introductory sociology, literary theory.

Professional Activities :

Member, American Sociological Association

Member, Society for Social Studies of Science

Member, Pacific Sociological Association

Member, Eastern Sociological Association

Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Member, History of Science Society

Member, Crime Writers' Association (Great Britain)

Member, International Society for Research on Emotion

Member, International Network for Social Network Analysis

Member, Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality 3

Founding Editor, Theory and Society 1973-75

Founding Editor, Sociological Theory 1980-84

Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology 1976-78, 1990-92.

Editorial Board, American Sociological Review 1995-7; 2003-6

Associate Editor, Social Forces l979-82

Advisory Editor, State, Culture, and Society 1984-

Consulting Editor, Knowledge and Society: Studies in the Sociology of Science, 1986- 88.

Advisory Editor, Sociological Quarterly 1987-89

Comité de rédaction, Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 1991-

Associate Editor, Sociological Perspectives, 1992-

Comité de lecture, Enquête: anthropologie, histoire, sociologie, 1995-

Editorial Board, Vremia mira (Moscow), 1996-

Elected Member, Committee on Nominations, American Sociological Association, 1981- 82

Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award Committee, American Sociological Association, 1981-83

Committee on Publications, American Sociological Association, 1980-85

Nominations Committee, Theory Section, American Sociological Association, 1987

Theory Prize Committee, Theory Section, American Sociological Association, 1987

Overseers' Committee to Visit the Department of Sociology, Harvard University, 1985- 88

Program Committee, Sociology of Emotions Section of the American Sociological Association, 1988-9

Nominations Committee, Sociology of Emotions Section American Sociological Association, 1991-3 4

Chair, Nominations Committee, Pacific Sociological Association, 1993

Visiting Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria, 1986

Visiting Lecturer, Course in the Science of Organization, Associazione Istituzione Libera Università Nuorese, Nuoro, Sardinia, 1992; 1994; 1996; 1997.

Visiting Professor, National Research Course in Sociology, University of Bergen, Norway, 1994.

Directeur associé, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, SHADYC (Sociologie, Histoire, Anthropologie des Dynamiques Culturelles), Marseille, 1995

Visiting Research Scholar, Sonderforschungsbereich, Universität Bremen, 1995.

Visiting Professor, Short course in Micro-sociology, University of Orebro, Sweden, August 1996.

Professeur invité, École Normale Supérieure Paris, March 1997

Visiting lecturer, Nankai University, Tianjin, People's Republic of China, May 2000.

Executive Office and Budget Committee, American Sociological Association, 2009-2012

Editorial Board, The Sociological Review, 2011—

Board of Directors, Council of Social Science Organizations, 2010-11

Visiting Committee to Review the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Amherst College, 2011.

External Review Committee for the Department of Sociology, University of Virginia, 2012

Professor, Meisterklasse [Master Class] "Cultures of Emotion," University of Konstanz, Germany, July 2012.

Guest Professor, Freie Universität Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institüt, Graduate School of North American Studies, May-June 2014.

Editorial Board, International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 2014--

Advisor/referee to :

National Science Foundation 5

National Institute of Education Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Universität Bielefeld American Sociological Review American Journal of Sociology Sociology of Education Social Problems Sociological Quarterly Sociological Inquiry Sociology and Social Research Symbolic Interaction Pacific Sociological Review Social Forces Sociological Forum The American Sociologist Theory and Society Sociological Theory Theory, Culture and Society Administrative Science Quarterly Social Studies of Science Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior Social Psychology Quarterly Academic Press Random House Free Press Prentice-Hall Bobbs-Merrill Reprints Worth Publishers John Wiley and Sons University of California Press University of Chicago Press Southern Illinois University Press University of North Carolina Press Cambridge University Press Oxford University Press Stanford University Press Princeton University Press Harvard University Press State University of New York Press M.I.T. Press Lexington Books Polity Press Roxbury Publishing Co. Duke University Press

Honors and Awards : 6

Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., 1974-75

Member of the Center of Advanced Study, University of Virginia, 1978-1982

Elected Chair, Theory Section of the American Sociological Association, 1979-80

Elected Chair, Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association, 1982-83

Elected Member, Sociological Research Association

Theory Prize, awarded by the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association, 1982, for "Micro-foundations of Macro-sociology," American Journal of Sociology 1981.

Elected Member of Council, American Sociological Association, 1987-90.

Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1989. Citation reads: "For work on the theory of social conflict, and for research on education and stratification, and on the sociology of science."

Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Social Science, Uppsala, Fall 1989.

Paul Hanly Furfey Lecturer, Association for the Sociology of Religion, 1991.

Bruce H. Mayhew Memorial Lecturer, University of South Carolina, 1992.

President, Pacific Sociological Association, 1992-3.

Distinguished Faculty Research Lecturer, University of California, Riverside, 1993.

Taft Lecturer, University of Cincinnati, 1994.

Distinguished Visiting Professor, Amsterdam School for Social Research, June 1996.

Distinguished Paper Award, Sociology of Religion Section, American Sociological Association, 1998, for "An Asian Route to Capitalism: Religious Economy and the Origins of Self-Transforming Growth in Japan," American Sociological Review 1997.

Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, American Sociological Association, 1999, for The Sociology of Philosophies

Association of American Publishers Scholarly Publishing Annual Award in the Category of Sociology and Anthropology, 1999, for The Sociology of Philosophies

Fritz Nova Memorial Lecturer, Villanova University, April 2000. 7

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2000).

Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions, University of Cambridge, 2000-2001

Vincent Woo Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, Nov. 2001.

Ludwik Fleck Prize, for best book, Society for Social Studies of Science, 2002, awarded for The Sociology of Philosophies.

Scholarly Publication Award, Sociology of Emotions section of American Sociological Association, 2004, for Interaction Ritual Chains

Lifetime Achievement Award, Sociology of Emotions section of American Sociological Association, 2004

H. Paul Douglass Lecturer, Religious Research Association, 2007

Honorary Doctorate, University of Amsterdam, 2008

Bone Lecturer, Illinois State University, Normal IL, October 2009

President, American Sociological Association, 2010-2011

Beers Lecturer, University of Kentucky, April 2011.

Gellner Nationalism Lecturer, London School of Economics, 2011

Distinguished Book Award, American Sociological Association, 2011, for Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory

Robin Williams Lecturer, University of California, Irvine, 2012

Robin Williams Award for lifetime achievement, 2012, Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict, American Sociological Association.

Edward Westermarck Lecturer, The Westermarck Society (national sociological association of Finland), 2012.

Publications (books) :

1968. State and Society. co-editor with Reinhard Bendix et. al. (Boston: Little, Brown; re-issued, University of California Press, 1974.

1972. The Discovery of Society. with Michael Makowsky. New York; Random House; 7th edition 2004; Dutch edition, 1979; Italian Edition, 1980; Japanese edition, 1987; Spanish edition 2002.

1975. Conflict Sociology: Toward an Explanatory Science. New York: Academic Press; Italian edition, 1981; Japanese edition 1991. Partial translations in Romanian, Korean, and Chinese. 2009: Conflict Sociology: A Sociological Classic Updated. Abridged and updated by Stephen K. Sanderson. Boulder CO: Paradigm Publishers.

1979. The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification. New York: Academic Press; Japanese edition 1984; Spanish edition 1989; Italian edition 1994; Chinese edition 1999; Portuguese edition 2001; partial translation in Serbo- Croatian.

1981. Sociology since Mid-century: Essays in Theory Cumulation. New York, Academic Press; Italian edition 1993.

1982. Sociological Insight: An Introduction to Non-obvious Sociology. New York: Oxford University Press; Japanese edition 1991. Second edition 1992. Russian edition 2004. Spanish edition (Buenos Aires) 2009.

1985. Three Sociological Traditions. New York: Oxford University Press. Italian edition 1987, 1999; Japanese edition 1990, 1997. Second edition Four Sociological Traditions. 1994. Mexican edition 2000; Japanese edition 1997; Italian edition 1999; Portuguese edition 1999.

1985. Three Sociological Traditions: Selected Readings. (edited volume) New York: Oxford University Press. Second edition Four Sociological Traditions: Selected Readings. 1994.

1985. Sociology of Marriage and Family: Gender, Love and Property. Chicago: Nelson- Hall. Second edition 1988. Third edition with Scott Coltrane 1991. Fourth edition 1994. Fifth edition 2000.

1985. Max Weber: A Skeleton Key. Beverly Hills: Sage. Japanese edition 1988; Danish edition 2000; Greek edition 2004.

1986. Weberian Sociological Theory. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.

1988. Theoretical Sociology. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. Italian edition 1992; India edition 1996.

1998. The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Russian edition 2002. Chinese edition 2004. 9

Spanish edition 2005. Turkish edition 2013. Italian, Iranian, Arabic and Korean editions forthcoming.

1999. Macro-History: Essays in Sociology of the Long Run. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Russian translation 2012.

2002. co-editor with Mauro Guillen, Paula England, Marshall Meyer. The New Economic Sociology: Developments in an Emerging Field. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Chinese translation 2008.

2004. Interaction Ritual Chains. Princeton University Press. Spanish translation 2009. Korean translation 2010. Chinese translation 2011. Polish translation 2011.

2008. Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory. Princeton University Press. German translation 2011.

2013. Does Capitalism Have a Future? co-authored by Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann, Georgi Deluguian, and Craig Calhoun. New York: Oxford University Press. translations in Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Slovenian, Czech, German, French, Arabic, Farsi, Polish, Finnish, Korean, Japanese. in process:

Time-Dynamics of Conflict

Fiction :

1979. The Case of the Philosophers Ring. New York: Crown Publishers. British edition, London: Harvester Press, 1980; reissued, Ostara Publications, 2009; Spanish edition, Madrid: Valdemar Ediciones, 2008.

Publications (articles):

1965. "Facilitation as a Function of Temporal Spacing of Stimuli in Intracranial Self- stimulation," with J.A. Deutsch. Nature 208: 592-93.

1966. "A Comparative Study of Academic Freedom and Student Politics," with J. Ben- David, Comparative Education Review 10: 220-249.

1966. "Social Factors in the Origins of a New Science: the Case of Psychology," with J. Ben-David, American Sociological Review 31: 451-465. Reprinted in Bobbs-Merrill series and elsewhere.

1968. "A Comparative Approach to Political Sociology," in R. Bendix et.al. (eds.), State and Society. Boston: Little, Brown, 42-67.

1968. "Competition and Social Control in Science," Sociology of Education 41: 123-140. Reprinted in Bobbs-Merrill series.

1971. "Functional and Conflict Theories of Educational Stratification," American Sociological Review 36: 1002-1019. Reprinted in Warner Module series and elsewhere. Translations into Italian and Japanese.

1971. "A Conflict Theory of Sexual Stratification," Social Problems 19: 3-21. Reprinted in H.P. Drietzel (ed.). Recent Sociology #4. New York: Macmillan, 1972, and elsewhere.

1974. "Reassessments of Sociological History: the Empirical Validity of the Conflict Tradition," Theory and Society 1: 147-178.

1974. "Where are Educational Requirements for Employment Highest?" Sociology of Education 47: 419-442.

1974. "Three Faces of Cruelty: Towards a Comparative Sociology of Violence," Theory and Society 1: 415-440.

1976. "Educational Credentialism and the Future of Social Inequality," The Center Magazine 9 (November/December), 66-74.

1977. "Some Comparative Principles of Educational Stratification," Harvard Educational Review 47: 1-27. Serbo-Croatian translation: "Usporedno Istrazivanje Principa Obrazovne Stratifikacije," in Sergej Flere (ed.), Proturjecja Suvremenog Obrazovanja. Zagreb, 1986.

1978. "Some Principles of Long-term Social Change: the Territorial Power of States," in Louis Kriesberg (ed.), Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change, Vol. 1. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1-34.

1979."Erving Goffman and the Development of Modern Social Theory," in Jason Ditton (ed.). The View from Goffman. London: Macmillan.

1980. "Weber's Last Theory of Capitalism: A Systematization," American Sociological Review 45: 925-942.

1981. "On the Micro-foundations of Macro-sociology," American Journal of Sociology 86: 984-1014. Winner of the Theory Prize of the Theory Section, American Sociological Association, l982. German translation in Hans-Peter Müller and Steffen Sigmund (eds.), Zeitgenössische amerikanische Soziologie. Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 2000.

1981. "Micro-translation as a Theory-building Strategy," in Karin Knorr-Cetina and Aaron V. Cicourel (eds.), Advances in Social Theory and Methodology: Towards an Integration of Micro- and Macro-sociology. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 81-108.

1981. "The Comparative Sociology of Philosophy: Oriental Materials," International Society for the Sociology of Knowledge Newsletter 7 (May) 29-32.

1981. "Does Modern Technology Change the Rules of Geopolitics?" Journal of Political and Military Sociology 9: 163-177.

1982. "Mathematics and Civilization," with Sal Restivo. The Centennial Review 26: 277- 301.

1982. "Fluttuazioni e crisi dei mercati delle credenziali educative," in Fanny S. Cappello, Marcello Dei, and Maurizio Rossi (eds.), L'immobilita Sociale: Stratificazione Sociale e Sistemi Scolastici. Bologna: Il Mulino, 27-52.

1983. "Robber-barons and Politicians in Mathematics: A Conflict Model of Science," with Sal Restivo. Canadian Journal of Sociology 8: 199-227.

1983. "The Weberian Revolution of the High Middle Ages," in Albert James Bergesen (ed.) Crises in the World System. Beverly Hills: Sage, 205-226.

1983. "Upheavals in Biological Theory Undermine Sociobiology," Sociological Theory 1983. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 306-18.

1983. "Conflicts and Developments in the Sociology of Science," with Sal Restivo. The Sociological Quarterly 24: 185-200.

1983."Micro-methods as a Basis for Macro-sociology," Urban Life 12: 184-202.

1983. "Alienation: Micro or Macro?" Western Sociological Review 14: 16-26. Italian translation: "Alienazione: Micro o Macro?" Studi di Sociologia 22 (1984): 109-126.

1984. "Statistics versus Words". Sociological Theory 1984. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 329-62.

1984. "Riflessioni sul passagio delle generazioni intellectuali," Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia 25: 351-368. Translation: "Reflections on the Death of Erving Goffman." Sociological Theory (1986) 4: 106-113.

1985. "The Mega-historians," Sociological Theory 3: 114-122.

1986. "Is 1980s Sociology in the Doldrums?" American Journal of Sociology 91: 1336- 55.

1986. "Three Sociological Traditions: On Creating the Future while Creating the Past." In James S. Coleman, Siegwart Lindenberg, and Stefan Nowak (eds.), Approaches to Social Theory. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

1986. "The Borkenau Thesis and the Rise of the West." Sociological Forum 1: 379-388.

1986. "A Dynamic Simulation of Marx's Model of Capitalism." (with Robert Hanneman.) in Norbert Wiley (ed.), The Marx/Weber Debate. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.

1986. "Historical Perspectives on Religion and Regime: Some Sociological Comparisons of Buddhism and Christianity." In Jeffrey K. Hadden and Anson Shupe (eds.), Prophetic Religions and Politics. New York: Paragon House.

1986. "Sociology as the Land of Oz." California Sociologist 9 :33-57.

1987. "Looking Forward or Looking Back?: Reply to Denzin." American Journal of Sociology 93: 180-84.

1987. "A Micro-Macro Theory of Creativity in Intellectual Careers: the Case of German Idealist Philosophy." Sociological Theory 5: 47-69.

1987. "Schleissungsprozesse und die Konflikttheorie der Professionen." Oesterreichische Zeitschrift fuer Soziologie 12, No. 2: 46-60. Translation: "Market Closure and the Conflict Theory of the Professions," in Michael Burrage and Rolf Torstendahl (eds.), Professions in Theory and History: Rethinking the Study of the Professions in Europe and North America. London: Sage, 1990, 24-43.

1987. "Interaction Ritual Chains, Power and Property." In Jeffrey C. Alexander (ed.), The Micro-Macro Link. Berkeley: University of California Press.

1988. "Theoretical Continuities in Goffman's Work." In Paul Drew and Anthony Wooton (eds.), Erving Goffman: Exploring the Interaction Order. Oxford: Polity Press.

1988. "The Durkheimian Tradition in Conflict Sociology." In Jeffrey C. Alexander (ed.), Durkheimian Sociology. New York: Cambridge University Press.

1988. "Women and Men in the Class Structure." Journal of Family Issues 9: 27-50. Reprinted in Rae Lesser Blumberg (ed.), Gender, Family and Economy. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1990; revised version in Michele Lamont and Marcel Fournier (eds.), Cultivating Differences: Symbolic Boundaries and the Making of Inequality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. Translation: "Femmes, stratification sociale et production de la culture." Sociologie et Sociétés 21 (1989): 27-45.

1988. "The Micro Contribution to Macro Sociology." Sociological Theory 6 (Fall): 242- 53.

1988. "Toward a Micro Theory of Structuring," with Jonathan H. Turner. In Jonathan H. Turner (ed.), Theory-Building in Sociology. Newbury Park, Ca.: Sage: 118-130.

1988. "For a Sociological Philosophy." Theory and Society 17: 669-702.

1989. "Sociology: Pro-Science or Anti-Science?" American Sociological Review 53: 124-139. Russian translation in Thesis No. 4, 1994.

1989. "Toward a Neo-Meadian Sociology of Mind." Symbolic Interaction 12: 1-31. "Response" [to commentaries on the preceeding] Symbolic Interaction 12: 111-119.

1989. "Sociological Theory, Disaster Research, and War." In Gary Kreps (ed.), Social Structure and Disaster: Conception and Measurement. University of Delaware Press, 365-385. Revised version: "Violent Conflict and Social Organization: Some Theoretical Implications of the Sociology of War." Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift 16 (1990): 63-87. Translation in J. Goudsblom (ed.), Hoofstukken uit de sociologie, Amersterdam University Press, 1995.

1989. "Toward a Theory of Intellectual Change: the Social Causes of Philosophies." Science, Technology and Human Values 14: 107-140.

1989. "Future Organizational Trends of the ASA" u 17 (No. 6, September): 1-6. with J. McCarthy, M. Meyer, P. Oliver, and J. Turner. [Newsletter of the American Sociological Association]

1990. "Stratification, Emotional Energy, and the Transient Emotions." in Theodore D. Kemper (ed.), Research Agendas in the Sociology of Emotions. Albany: SUNY Press, 27-57.

1990. "Webers tes nygranskad: religios kapitalism i Kina," Sociologisk Forskning 14: 6- 19. [Swedish]

1990. "Changing Conceptions in the Sociology of the Professions." In Michael Burrage and Rolf Torstendahl (eds.), Knowledge, State and Strategy. The Formation of Professions in Europe and North America. London: Sage, 11-23. Spanish translation 2010.

1990. "Conflict Theory and the Advance of Macro-Historical Sociology." In George Ritzer (ed.), Frontiers of Social Theory. New York: Columbia University Press, 68-87. Translation: in Filosofskaia i Sotsiologicheskaia Mysl [Russian]

1990. "The Dimensions of Micro-interaction." American Journal of Sociology 96: 32-68 (with Theodore Kemper).

1990. "Market Dynamics as the Engine of Historical Change." Sociological Theory 8: 111-35. 14

1990. "The Organizational Politics of the ASA." The American Sociologist 21: 311-5.

1991. "Historical Change and the Ritual Production of Gender." in Joan Huber (ed.), Micro-Macro Linkages in Sociology. Newbury Park CA: Sage, pp. 109-120.

1991. "Implicaciones Ontologicas del Teoria del Conflicto: La Energia Emocional de los Rituales de Interaccion y el Culto a la Voluntad." In Teresa Gonzalez de la Fe (ed.), Sociologia. Unidad y Diversidad. Madrid: Servicio de Publicaciones del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, pp. 93-116.

1991. "Las Cadenas Rituales de Interaccion y la Produccion del orden Social Estratificado." In Teresa Gonzalez de la Fe (ed.), Sociologia. Unidad y Diversidad. Madrid: Servicio de Publicaciones del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, pp. 223-232.

1991. "The Confusion of the Modes of Sociology" in Steven Seidman and David G. Wagner (eds.), Postmodernism and Social Theory. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, pp. 179- 198.

1991. "Altruism and Culture as Social Products." Voluntas 2, No. 2: 1-16. (with Neal Hickman)

1992. "The Romanticism of Agency/Structure versus the Analysis of Micro/Macro." Current Sociology 40, No. 1: 77-97.

1992. "Conflict Theory." The Encyclopedia of Sociology. New York: Macmillan: 288- 90.

1992. "On the Sociology of Intellectual Stagnation: The Late Twentieth Century in Perspective." Theory, Culture and Society 9: 73-96.

1992. "Thoughts in Slow Motion." Times Higher Education Supplement [London] June 26 (pp. 15, 17).

1992."What Theories Predicted the State Breakdowns and Revolutions of the Soviet Bloc?" (with David Waller). In Louis Kriesberg (ed.), Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change. Vol. 14: 31-47. German translation in Hans Joas and Martin Kohli (eds.), Der Zusammenbruch der DD: Frankfurt: Suhrkamp.

1992: "The Rise and Fall of Modernism in Religion and Politics." Acta Sociologica 35: 171-86.

1992. "The Geopolitical and Economic World-systems of Kinship-based and Agrarian- coercive Societies." Review 15 (summer): 373-88. Russian translation in Vremia Mira 2001: 462-476. 15

1993. "The Rationality of Avoiding Choice." Rationality and Society 5: 58-67.

1993. "Emotional Energy as the Common Denominator of Rational Choice." Rationality and Society 5: 203-230.

1993: "Maturation of the State-centered Theory of Revolution and Ideology." Sociological Theory 11 (March): 117-28.

1993: "Toward an Integrated Theory of Gender Stratification" Sociological Perspectives 36 (Fall): 185-216. (with Janet Chafetz, Rae Lesser Blumberg, Scott Coltane, and Jonathan Turner).

1993: "What Does Conflict Theory Predict about America's Future?" Sociological Perspectives 36: 289-313.

1993: "Ethical Controversies of Science and Society: a Relation between Two Spheres of Social Conflict." in Thomas Brante, Steve Fuller and William Lynch (eds), Controversial Science. Albany NY: SUNY Press, pp. 301-17.

1993. "Quattro macrostrutture in conflitto." in Paolo Ammassari (ed.), Talcott Parsons e La Tradizione Sociologica in Europa Occidentale e Nel Nord-America. Napoli: Guida Editori, pp. 135-172.

1993: "Heroizing and Deheroizing Weber." Theory and Society 22: 861-70.

1994. "Did Social Science Break Down in the 1970s?" (with David Waller). In Jerald Hage (ed.), Formal Theory in Sociology: Opportunity or Pitfall? Albany: State University of New York Press, pp. 15-40.

1994: "The Geopolitics of Ethnic Mobilization: Some Theoretical Projections for the Old Soviet Bloc". (with David V. Waller) in John H. Moore (ed.), Legacies of the Collapse of Marxism. Arlington VA: George Mason University Press, pp. 79-104.

1994. "Why the Social Sciences Won't Become High-Consensus, Rapid-Discovery Science." Sociological Forum 9: 155-77. Reprinted in Stephen Cole (ed.) What's Wrong with Sociology? Princeton: Princeton University Press (forthcoming).

1995. "German-Bashing and the Theory of Democratic Modernization." Zeitschrift für Sociologie 24: 1-19. Dutch translation: Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift 21 (1995).

1995. "Prediction in Macro-sociology: the Case of the Soviet Collapse." American Journal of Sociology 100: 1552-93. Russian translation 2008.

1995. "Introduction." to Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Los Angeles: Roxbury. 16

1995: "Discovering Theory Dynamics by Computer Simulation: Experiments on State Legitimacy and Imperialist Capitalism." (with Robert A. Hanneman and Gabriele Mordt) Sociological Methodology 25: 1-46.

1995: "Les traditions sociologiques." Enquête: anthropologie, histoire, sociologie 2: 11- 38.

1996. "Can Rational Action Theory Unify Future Social Science?" in Jon Clark (ed.), James S. Coleman. London: Falmer Press, pp. 329-43.

1996. "Disasters, Natural and Man-Made: Sociological Reflections on Kobe and Hiroshima." Kobe Law Journal 45: 809-26.

1997. "Stark and Bainbridge, Durkheim and Weber: Theoretical Comparisons." in Lawrence A. Young (ed.), Rational Choice Theory and Religion. Routledge.

1997 "An Asian Route to Capitalism: Religious Economy and the Origins of Self- Transforming Growth in Japan" American Sociological Review 62 (Dec.): 843-65.

1997. "The Transformation of Philosophy." in Johan Heilbron, Lars Magnusson, and Björn Wittrock (eds.), The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity. Kluwer.

1997. "A Sociological Guilt Trip: Comment on Connell." American Journal of Sociology 106: 1558-64.

1998. "The Sociological Eye and its Blinders." Contemporary Sociology 27 (Jan.): 2-7.

1998. "Democratization in World-Historical Perspective." In Ralph Schroeder, ed. Weberian Political Sociology: Democracy, Nationalism and Modernization. London: Macmillan.

1998. "Modelling Interaction Ritual Theory of Solidarity." (with Robert Hanneman). in Patrick Doreian and Tom Farraro (eds.) The Problem of Solidarity: Theories and Models. Gordon and Breach.

1999. "Capitalism." Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions. Jack Goldstone, Editor. Washington D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Books.

1999. "The European Sociological Tradition and Twenty-First Century World Sociology." In Janet Abu-Lughod (ed.), Sociology for the Twenty-first Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

1999. "Applying Contemporary Religious Sociology to Early Christianity." Religious Studies Review 25 (April): 136-139. 17

1999. "Socially Unrecognized Cumulation." American Sociologist 30 (summer): 41-61.

1999. "The Golden Age of Macrohistorical Sociology." [in Russian translation] in Nikolai Rozov (ed.), Vremia Mira. Novosibirsk. Spanish translation 2010.

2000. "Situational Stratification: A Micro-macro Theory of Inequality." Sociological Theory 18: 17-43. Chinese translation 2002.

2000. "Vier Makro-Strukturen von Konflikten." In Dieter Bogenhold (ed.), Moderne Amerikanische Soziologie, Stuttgart: Universitäts-taschenbucher (Lucius & Lucius). 99- 134.

2000. "Comparative and historical patterns of education." In Maureen T. Hallinan (ed.), Handbook of the Sociology of Education. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 213-239.

2000. "The Sociology of Philosophies: a Précis." Philosophy of the Social Sciences 30: 157-201.

2000. "Reply to Reviewers and Symposium Commentators." Philosophy of the Social Sciences 30: 300-326.

2000. "Reflexivity and Embeddedness in the History of Ethical Philosophies." in Martin Kusch (ed.), The Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge. New Synthese Historical Library, Kluwer Publishers.

2000: "The Multidimensionality of Social Evolution and the Historical Pathways of Asia and the West." Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift 26; also in Iranian Social Science Journal

2000. "Predictions of Geopolitical Theory and the Modern World-System," in Georgi M. Derluguian and Scott L. Greer (eds.), Questioning Geopolitics: Political Projects in a Changing World-System. (with David Waller), Praeger Publishers, 51-68.

2001. "Social Movements and the Focus of Emotional Attention." In Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper, and Francesca Polletta (eds.), Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

2001. "Ethnic Change in Macro-Historical Perspective. " In Elijah Anderson and Douglas S. Massey (eds.), The Problem of the Century: Racial Stratification in the United States. New York: Russell Sage.

2001. "Emotion as Key to Reconstructing Social Theory." In Jack Barbalet and Margot Lyon (eds.), Emotion in Social Theory: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives. Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield. 18

2001. “Weber and the Sociology of Revolution.” Journal of Classical Sociology 2: 171- 194.

2001. “Civilizations as zones of prestige and social contact.” International Sociology 16: 421-437. reprinted: 2004. “Civilizations as zones of prestige and social contact.” In Said Amir Arjomand and Edward Tiryakian (eds.), Rethinking Civilizational Analysis. London: Sage. Chinese translation 2014.

2002. ‘On the Acrimoniousness of Intellectual Disputes.’ Common Knowledge 8: 47- 70.

2002. “Geopolitics in an Era of Internationalism." Social Evolution and History Journal vol. 1

2002. "Conflict Theory and Interaction Ritual: the Microfoundations of Conflict Theory." (with Jörge Rössel) In Jonathan Turner (ed.), Handbook of Sociological Theories. New York: Plenum Publishers.

2002. “Introduction.” with Mauro Guillen, Paula England, Marshall Meyer. in The New Economic Sociology: Developments in an Emerging Field. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

2002. “Credential Inflation and the Future of Universities.” In Steve Brint (ed.), The Future of the City of Intellect. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Excerpted in Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 2002.

2002. “Black’s Contributions to a General Theory of Conflict.” [review essay] Contemporary Sociology 31: 655-58.

2003. “A Network-location Theory of Culture.” Sociological Theory 21: 69-73.

2003. “Fuller, Kuhn, and the Emergent Attention Space of Reflexive Studies of Science.” Social Epistemology 17: 145-150.

2003. “Interaction rituals and sociological explanation of intellectual creativity.” [in Russian] Komparitivistika 2: 33-57.

2004. “Rituals of solidarity and security in the wake of terrorist attack.” Sociological Theory 22: 53-87. Korean translation 2007.

2004. “Lenski’s power theory of economic inequality: a central neglected question in stratification research.” Sociological Theory 22: 219-228.

2004. “Commonality and Divergence of World Intellectual Structures in the Second Millenium CE.” in Immanuel Wallerstein (ed.), The Modern World-System in the Longue Durée. Boulder CO: Paradigm Publishers.

2004. “The uses of counter-factual history: can there be a theory of historical turning points?” Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift 30: 275-296. (Dutch)

2004. "The Program of Interaction Ritual Theory." Russian Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology.

2005. “The Durkheimian Movement in France and in World Sociology.” in Jeffrey Alexander and Phil Smith (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim. Cambridge Univ. Press.

2005. "Conflict Theory of Corporal Punishment". in Michael Donnelly and Murray A. Straus (eds.), Corporal Punishment of Children in Theoretical Perspective. New Haven: Yale University Press.

2005. “Mann’s Transformation of the Classical Sociological Traditions.” In John A. Hall and Ralph Schroeder (eds.), An Anatomy of Power: The Social Theory of Michael Mann. Cambridge Univ. Press.

2006. “Sociology and Philosophy.” in Craig Calhoun, Chris Rojek, and Bryan Turner (eds.) International Handbook of Sociology. London: Sage.

2006. “Micro-interactional dynamics of violent atrocities.” Irish Journal of Sociology 15: 40-52.

2006. “Freud and Interaction Ritual: a Response to Manning.” Symbolic Interaction 29: 419-421.

2007. “The classical tradition in sociology of religion.” in James Beckford and N.J. Demerath (eds.), Handbook for the Sociology of Religion. London: Sage.

2007. “Rationalization and globalization in neo-Weberian perspective.” in Ino Rossi (Ed.), Frontiers of Globalization Research. New York: Springer.

2007. “Techniques of Violent Confrontation: Micro Sociological Cues to Mass Killing.” Contexts 6 (No. 2, Spring) 31-3.

2007. “Turning Points, Bottlenecks, and the Fallacies of Counter-Factual History.” Sociological Forum 22: 247-269.

2007. “The creativity of social networks and the struggle over attention space.” In Arnaud Sales and Marcel Fournier (eds.), Knowledge, Communication, and Creativity. London: Sage. 20

2008. “Suicide Bombers: Warriors of the Middle Class.” Foreign Policy. Jan. 2008. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4131

2008. "Forward panic and the emotions of violent atrocities." In Lindgren, Gerd, Bengt Starrin and Asa Wettergren (eds.), Det Sociala Livets Emotionella Grunder. Malmo: Liber Publishing Company [Swedish]

2008. “The Four M’s of Religion: Magic, Membership, Morality and Mysticism.” Review of Religious Research 50: 5-15.

2008. “Secularization: Religious and Political.” Sociologie [Dutch]

2008. “Why Have Ethical Philosophies Changed More Slowly Historically than Metaphysics and Epistemology?” [Russian] Epistemology and Philosophy of Science.

2009. “Micro and Macro Causes of Violence.” International Journal of Conflict and Violence 3: 9-22.

2009. “The Micro-sociology of Violence.” British Journal of Sociology 60: 566-576.

2009. “Reply to Cooney and Felson.” British Journal of Sociology 60: 595-601.

2009. “How Organized is International Crime?” Contemporary Sociology 38: 516-521.

2009. “A Dead End for a Trend Theory.” European Journal of Sociology 50: 431-441.

2009. “One Hundred Years of Advance on Durkheim. A review essay on Marzio Barbagli’s “Congedarsi dal mondo.” Sociologica: Italian Journal of Sociology.

2010. “The Micro-Sociology of Religion: Religious Practices, Collective and Individual.” Association of Religion Data Archives Guiding Papers. http://www.thearda.com/rrh/papers/guidingpapers/Collins.asp

2010. “The Contentious Interactionism of Charles Tilly.” Social Psychology Quarterly 73: 1-6.

2010. “Geopolitical Conditions of Internationalism, Human Rights, and World Law.” Journal of Globalization Studies 1: 29-45.

2010. “Critical Comments on Paul McLean, The Art of the Network, and Rebecca Emigh, The Underdevelopment of Capitalism.” Newsletter of the Comparative Historical Section, American Sociological Association.

2010. “In Conversation with the American Sociological Association President: Randall Collins on Emotions, Violence, and Interactionist Sociology.” Canadian Review of Sociology 46: 93-101.

2010. “A Dynamic Theory of Battle Victory and Defeat.” Cliodynamics: The Journal of Theoretical and Mathematical History 1: 3-25. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/5mv6v0r1

2010. “State Breakdown Theory and Geopolitical Theory: Lessons from the Fall of the Soviet Bloc.” in Baber, Zaheer (ed.) Society, History and the Global Condition of Humanity: Essays in Honor of Irving M. Zeitlin. Lanham MD: Lexington Books.

2010. “The Golden Age of Macro-historical Sociology.” In Curto, Diogo Ramada, Miguel Bandeira Jeronimo, and Nuno Domingos (eds.), Historical Sociology: Concepts, Methods and Traditions. [Portuguese]

2010. “Exploring the sociological re-imagining of politics. A conversation between Randall Collins and Rolland Munro.” Sociological Review 58: 548-562.

2011. “Forward Panic and Violent Atrocities.” In Strang, Heather, Suzanne Karstedt, and Ian Loader (eds). Emotions, Crime and Justice. Oxford: Hart Publishing, pp. 23-36.

2011. “Technological Displacement and Capitalist Crisis: Escapes and Dead Ends.” Russian translation in Political Conceptology: Journal of Metadisciplinary Research 2009.

2011. “Wiley’s Contribution to Symbolic Interactionist Theory.” in Bakker, J. I. and Phillip Vannini (eds.) Semiotics and Sociology: Peirce, Mead and Wiley. American Sociologist 42: 156-67.

2011. “Drug Consumption as Social Ritual: the Case of Tobacco.” In Maitena Milhaud and Geoffrey Hunt (eds.), Drugs and Culture. Ashgate Publishers.

2011. “Patrimonial Alliances and Failures of State Penetration: an Historical Dynamic of Crime, Corruption, Gangs and Mafias.” in Julia Adams and Mounira Charrad (eds.), The Power of Kinship: Patrimonial States in Global Perspective. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 636.

2011. “The Long-term construction of democracy: a sociological/ geopolitical theory.” Personality, Culture, Society. [Russian]

2011. “Ritual Boundary Violence and Bureaucratic Callousness: Two Structural Causes of Cruelty.” in Trutz von Trotha and Jakob Rösel (eds.). On Cruelty. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.

2011. « Créativité et renommée dans un métier sans réseau », SociologieS [En ligne] , Grands résumés , Franz Kafka. Eléments pour une théorie de la création littéraire , mis en ligne le 11 avril 2011. URL : http://sociologies.revues.org/index3431.html

2011. “Explaining the Anti-Soviet revolutions by state breakdown theory and geopolitical Theory.” International Politics, 1-16.

2011. "Who Has Been a Successful Public Intellectual?" European Journal of Sociological Theory 14: 437 – 452.

2011. "The Invention and Diffusion of Social Techniques of Violence: How Micro- Sociology Can Explain Historical Trends." Sociologia: Italian Journal of Sociology. http://www.sociologica.mulino.it/

2011. "Credential Inflation and the Future of Universities." Italian Journal of Sociology of Education 2: 228-251.

2012: “C-Escalation and D-escalation: A Theory of the Time-Dynamics of Conflict.” American Sociological Review 77: 1-20.

2012. “Time-Bubbles of Nationalism: Dynamics of Solidarity Rituals in Lived Time.” Nations and Nationalism 18: 383-397.

2012. "Mutual Halo Effects in Cultural Production Networks: the Case of Modernist Architects." with Mauro F. Guillèn. Theory and Society 41: 527-556.

2013. "Entering and Leaving the Tunnel of Violence: Micro-Sociological Dynamics of Self-Entrainment in Severe Violence.” Current Sociology 61: 132-151.

2013. "Ten Major Theory Books Since 2000." Contemporary Sociology 42: 160-166.

2013. "Marx, Weber and Mann." Contemporary Sociology 42: 482-484.

2013. “Geopolitics and the Long-Term Construction of Democracy.” In O'Leary, Brendan, and Joanne McEvoy (eds.), Power-Sharing in Deeply Divided Places. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

2013. "Micro and Macro-sociological Causes of Violent Atrocities." Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas (Portuguese)

2013. "Public Festivals: Ritual Successes, Failures, and Mediocrities." Polis 28: 13-18. (Italian)

2013. "Zur Mikrosoziologie von Massentötungen bei Amokläufen" ["Micro-sociology of Mass Rampage Killings"] Berliner Journal für Soziologie. 23: 7-25. 23

http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s11609-013- 0207-6

2013. "Does nationalist sentiment increase fighting efficacy? A skeptical view from the sociology of violence." In John A. Hall and Siniša Malešević (eds.) Nationalism and War. Cambridge University Press.

2013. "Tipping point revolutions and state breakdown revolutions." Nuvos Estudos 97: 69-82. (translation into Brazilian Portuguese)

2014. "Time-bubbles of Nationalism: Dynamics of Solidarity Ritual in Lived Time. In Eric T. Woods and Rachel Tsang. The Cultural Politic of Nationalism and Nation- Building. Ritual and Performance in the Forging of Nations. London: Routledge.

2014. "Interaction Ritual Chains and Collective Effervescence." pp. 300-313 in Christian von Scheve and Mikko Salmela (eds.), Collective Emotions. Oxford University Press.

2014. "Durkheim: via Fournier, via Lukes." Theory and Society 43:

2014. "Four Theories of Informalization and How to Test Them." Human Figurations :3 No. 2. (online journal) http://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/humfig/11217607.0003.2*?rgn=full+text

2014. “Four Theories of Informalization and How to Test Them.” Human Figurations 3(2). Online: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.11217607.0003.207

2014. "The High of Cultural Experience. Towards a Micro-sociology of Cultural Consumption." with Claudio Benzecry. Sociological Theory 32: 307-326.

2015. "Visual Micro-sociology and the Sociology of Flesh and Blood." Qualitative Sociology DOI 10.1007/s11133-014-9297-5

Forthcoming 2015. "Emotional Dynamics of Violent Situations." In Daniel Ziegler, Marco Gerster, and Staffen Kraemer (editors), Framing Excessive Violence. Palgrave Macmillan.

forthcoming 2015. "Forward panics and time-dynamics of crowd violence." in Axel Paul and Benjamin Schwalb (eds.), Gewaltmassen: Über die Eigendynamik und Selbstorganisation Kollektiver Gewalt. [Violent Crowds. On the Internal Dynamic and Self-organization of Collective Violence.] Hamburg: Hamburger Edition. forthcoming 2015. "Bodily Interactions in Interaction Ritual Theory and Violence." in Michael Staack and Robert Gugutzer (eds.), Körper und Ritual. in process 2014. "Structural Advantage and Mutual Halo Effects in Cultural Production Networks." with Mauro F. Guillén. 24

Papers delivered:

"Competition and Social Control in Science," Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 1967.

"Internal and External Factors in the Development of the Social Sciences," Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., August 1970.

"Quelques Principes Dynamiques du Champ Intellectuel," Conference on La Science des Oeuvres, University of Lille, France, May 1974.

"Positivism and Neo-positivism," Theory and Society Conference at Rockefeller Foundation Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, November 1974.

"Some Sociological Principles of Heresy, Religious and Secular," Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, February 1975.

"Sexual Stratification and Clerical Employment," Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, San Francisco, August 1975.

"Educational Credentialism: Where Does Sociology Go from Here?" Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, September 1975.

"Current Trends in Sociological Theory," Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, September 1975.

"The Stratification of Energy in Society," Conference on Human Energy, Asilomar Conference Center, California, June 1976.

"Educational Credentialism and the Future of Social Inequality," Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Santa Barbara, August 1976.

"The Rise of the Credential System," Annual Meeting of the Sociology of Education Association, San Diego, March 1977.

"Credential Markets and the Dynamics of Stratification," Conference on Credentialism, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, March 1977.

"War and the Territorial Power of States," Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, September 1977.

"The Relation between Micro- and Macro-sociology," Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, September 1977.

"The General Economic History: Weber's Finest Work?" Max Weber Symposium, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 1978.

"Social Determinants of the Comparative Development of Mathematics," Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Bloomington, Indiana November 1978.

"Social Determinants of Philosophies," Annual Meeting of the Society for Comparative Study of Civilizations, California State University at Northridge, March 1979.

"The Social Causes of Philosophies: A Comparative Historical Theory," Lecture Series on Philosophy and Sociology, University of Dayton, October, 1979.

"Math Blocks: A Sociological Explanation and Some Proposed Solutions," Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Washington D.C., November 1979.

"Cultural Production Cycles: Toward a Three-fold Theory," Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations, Binghampton, N.Y., November 1979.

"The Future Decline of the Russian Empire: an Application of Geopolitical Theory," Sociology Lecture Series, University of South Florida, Tampa, February 1980; Yale University, March 1980; Columbia University, April 1980.

"Mathematics and Civilization: a Sociological Theory," with Sal P. Restivo, Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, Syracuse, N.Y., May 1980.

"Crises and Declines in Educational Credential Markets," International Colloquium on the Sociology of Education, Institute of Sociology of the University of Urbino, Italy, September 1980.

"Robber-barons and Politicians in Mathematics: a Conflict Theory of Science," Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Toronto, Canada, October 1980.

"Max Weber's Theory of Imperialism," Max Weber Symposium, Wayne, N.J., October 1980.

"Lord Curzon: the Personal Face of Imperialism," South Asia Seminar, University of Virginia, February 1981.

"A Sociological Theory of Emotion," Conference on Emotions, Werner-Reimer-Stiftung, Bad Homburg, W. Germany, July 1981.

"Conflict and Sociology," Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, Canada, August 1981. 26

"Methods of Historical Sociology," Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, Canada, August 1981.

"Social Networks and Intellectual Creativity: Philosophy and Mathematics in Ancient China and Greece," Duke University Colloquium Series, January 1982.

"Prospects for Freudian Sociology," Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, April 1982.

"The Weberian Revolution of the High Middle Ages," Annual Conference on the Political Economy of the World System, Tucson, Arizona, April 1982

"Policy Positions on Education: Two Liberal Factions and a Radical/Conservative Ambiguity," Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Detroit, September 1983.

"Three Sociological Traditions: On Creating the Future while Creating the Past." Polish- American Conference on Social Theory, University of Chicago, November 1983.

"Interaction Ritual Chains, Power and Property: the Micro-Macro Connection as an Empirically-Based Theoretical Problem." German-American Conference on Sociological Theory, Giessen, West Germany, June 21-23, 1984.

"Social Conflict and the Place of the Family: Toward a Theory of Moral Politics." International Sociological Association-Committee on Family Research Conference, Melbourne, Australia, August 19-24, 1984.

"Historical Perspectives on Religion and Regime: Some Sociological Comparisons of Buddhism and Christianity." Conference on Prophetic Religions and Politics, Fort-de- France, Martinique, November 14-18, 1984.

"A Dynamic Simulation of Marx's Theory of Capitalism." With Robert Hanneman. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington D.C., August 1985.

"Conflict Theory and the Professions: A General Statement." Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Symposium on Professionalisation and Conflict Theories, Uppsala, Sweden, May 1986.

"Sociological Theory, Disaster Research, and War." Symposium on Social Structure and Disaster, Williamsburg, Virginia, May 1986.

"Theoretical Continuity in the Career of Erving Goffman." Conference on Erving Goffman: An Interdisciplinary Approach. University of York, England, July 1986.

"A Micro-Macro Theory of Creativity in Intellectual Careers." Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, August 1986.

"The Sociology of Philosophy: toward a Triple-level Theory," Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Pittsburgh, October 1986.

"How to Incorporate Sociophysiology into Sociological Theory," Conference on Sociophysiology of Social Relationships, Stanford University Medical School, November 1986.

"Comments on A Framework for the History of the Professions," Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, March 1987.

"What the Sociology of War Tells us About Human Conflict," Plenary Address to the North Central Sociological Association, Cincinnati, April 1987.

"The Independent Sector: Altruism and Culture as Social Products," Conference on the Independent Sector, Princeton University, May 1987.

"Toward a Micro-Theory of Structuring," with Jonathan H. Turner, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 1987.

"Micro-violence and the Macro-structure of War," Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 1987.

"Transformations of Intellectual Disciplines over Historical Time: a Comparative Approach to Intellectual Change." Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Worcester, Mass., November 1987.

"External Geopolitics and the Internal Politics of the State." University of Goteborg, Sweden, March 1988; McGill University, April 1988.

"Sociological Theorizing." Albany Conference on General Social Theory and its Critics, State University of New York, Albany, April 1988.

"Social Movement Theory and General Sociological Theory." Keynote address to Workshop on Frontiers in Social Movement Theory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 1988.

"Three Modes of Sociology: Scientific, Practical, and Ideological." Plenary address, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 1988.

"The Scope of Sociology in a Changing World." Plenary address to Georgia Sociological Association, Gainesville, Georgia, October 1988.

"A Micro-Macro Theory of the Production of Culture." Mellon Colloquium Series, Princeton University, October 1988.

"Interlinkages among Intellectual Communities: Mathematicians and Philosophers in China vs. Greece." Joint Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science and European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 1988.

"Varieties of Sociology of Science and Technology." Joint Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science and European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, Amsterdam, November 1988.

"The Development of a Sociological Theory of Science: a Fifty-year Perspective." Joint Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science and European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, Amsterdam, November 1988.

"Weberian Sociology Today." Plenary address to the Swedish Sociological Association, Stockholm, February 1989.

"Market Dynamics as the Engine of World History." University of Lund, Sweden, February 1989; University of Umea, Sweden, October 1989.

"What is the Current Condition of Sociological Knowledge?" University of Stockholm, Sweden, February 1989.

"The Divergence of East and West: Theorizing Beyond Max Weber." Reed College, March 1989.

"Creativity and Routine in Intellectual Communities." Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Reno, Nevada, April 1989.

"Political Censorship and the Future of Sociology." Plenary address to the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Reno, Nevada, April 1989.

"Historical Change and the Ritual Production of Gender." Plenary address to the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 1989.

"A Sociological Theory of Thinking." University of Stockholm, October 1989.

"Sociology of World Politics and the Crisis of the Communist States: a Prediction Confirmed." University of Uppsala; University of Stockholm; University of Amsterdam; November 1989.

"The recent development of conflict theory and historical sociology." Due Tradizioni Sociologiche a Confronto: Convegno internazionale, Istituto Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples, Italy; November 1989. 29

"A Theory of Intellectual Change" and "The Divergence of East and West: the Development of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and China." Paradiso Lecture Series, Amsterdam, November 1989.

"Ethical Controversies of Science and Society: a Relation between Two Spheres of Social Conflict." Inter-University Center, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, May 1990.

"Interaction Ritual Chains and the Production of the Stratified Social Order." International Sociological Association World Congress, Madrid, July 1990.

"Ontological Implications of Conflict Theory: the Emotional Energy of Interaction Rituals and the Cult of the Will." International Sociological Association World Congress, Madrid, July 1990.

"A Sociological Dimension of Cogito Ergo Sum." German-American Theory Conference, University of Maryland, August 1990.

"Did Social Science Break Down in the 1970s?" (with David Waller) Conference on Formal Theory Construction, University of Maryland, August 1990.

"Historical Sociology as a Field of Struggle between Historical Specialists and Contemporary Theory-Builders." Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington D.C., August 1990.

"Critique of Coleman's Foundations of Social Theory ." Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington D.C., August 1990.

"Resolving the Complexity of Sociological Theories." Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Irvine California, April 1991.

"What is the Sociological Difference Between Philosophy and Science?" Symposium on Science, Technology, and Knowledge in Modern Society, San Diego State University, April 1991; International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Uppsala, Sweden, August 1991.

"Liberals and Conservatives, Religious or Political: Some Comparisons from World History." Association for the Sociology of Religion, Cincinnati, August 1991.

"The Geopolitical and Economic World-systems of Tribal and Agrarian-coercive Societies." Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Cincinnati, August 1991.

"What Theories Predicted the State Breakdowns and Revolutions of the Soviet Bloc?" with David Waller. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Cincinnati, August 1991. 30

"The Trajectories of Competition within Intellectual Networks: the Divergence between Philosophy and Science in Early Modern Europe." Society for Social Studies of Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 1991.

"Caught in the Structural Crunch: the Timing of Network Contact and Intellectual Creativity." International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, San Diego, February 1992.

"The Geopolitics of Ethnic Mobilization: Some Theoretical Projections for the Old Soviet Bloc" (with David V. Waller). Conference on Legacies of the Collapse of Marxism, George Mason University, March 1992.

"A Geopolitical Theory of Ethnicity." Pennsylvania State University, March 1992.

"Interaction Rituals, Emotional Energy and Rational Choice." Bruce Mayhew Memorial Lecture, University of South Carolina, April 1992.

"The Sociology of Culture." Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Oakland, April 1992.

"An Asian Route to Capitalism." International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan. April 1992.

"Long-term Dynamics of State Legitimacy and Imperialist Capitalism: A Simulation of Neo-Weberian Theory." with Robert Hanneman. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, August 1992.

"Critique of Chase-Dunn's Global Formation ." Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, August 1992.

"The Presidential Election and the Sociology of Education." Annual Meeting of the California Sociological Association, San Diego, October 1992.

"Schumpeter's Contribution to the Contemporary Sociology of Capitalism." Center for Social Theory and Comparative History, UCLA, February 1993.

"A Turning Point in World History: the Divergence of Islam and Christendom." UCLA Macro-sociology Seminar, February 1993.

"What Does Conflict Theory Predict for America's Future?" Presidential Address, Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Portland, Oregon, April 1993.

"Balkanization or Americanization: Predicting the Future of Ethnicity." Spring Institute Keynote Address, University of Chicago, April 1993.

"The Transformation of Philosophy." SCASSS Workshop on The Great Transition: Discourses on Society and the Rise of the Social Sciences, 1750-1850. Uppsala, Sweden, June 1993.

"Prediction in Macro-sociology: The Case of the Soviet Collapse." Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Miami, August 1993.

"Stark and Bainbridge, Durkheim and Weber: Theoretical Comparisons." Conference on Assessing Rational Models of Religion, Sundance, Utah, April 1994.

"Using Sociological Theory to Make Sense of Introductory Sociology." (with Jonathan Turner) Teaching Seminar, Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, April 1994.

"The Social Organization of Existentialism." Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, April 1994.

"Sociology of Thinking, Sociology of Emotion, and the Route to an Artificial Intelligence." Taft Lecture, University of Cincinnati, May 1994.

"Implications of Geopolitical Theory for Charting the Post-Soviet World Situation." Workshop of the Peace and War Section of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, August 1994.

"The Theory of Democratization and the Fallacies of Under-Theorized History." Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, August 1994.

"Can Emotional Rituals Solve the Coleman Problem of Undersocialized Youth?" (with Rebecca Li) Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, August 1994.

"Gödel and the Vienna Circle: Creative Centers and the Intersection of Intellectual Networks." Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, New Orleans, October 1994.

"From Philosophy and Social Theory to Science Studies: Until Now, a One-way Street." Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, New Orleans, October 1994.

"The Comparative Sociology of Philosophies: Dynamics of Long-term Intellectual Networks." Harvard University, October 1994.

"The Inflation of Educational Credentials: 20 Years Later." Dalhousie University; University of New Brunswick; November 1994; Princeton University, December 1994.

"Conflict Theory, Emancipatory Sociology, and Postmodernism: A Perspective on Sociology in the Late 20th Century." Boston University, November 1994; Northeastern University, December 1994.

"German-Bashing and the Theory of Democratic Modernization". University of Iowa Theory Workshop, March 1995.

"A Sociological Perspective on the 20th Century." California State University, Bakersfield, May 1995.

"The Theoretical Integration of Emotions and Rationality." Universität Bremen, June 1995.

"Geopolitical Theory of National Identities and Ethnic Conflict." Universität Bielefeld, July 1995.

"Why Sociological Theory is Necessary to Build Any Successful Computer Artificial Intelligence." Universität Bielefeld, July 1995.

"Modelling Individual Thinking from Position in Social Networks." Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study, Wassenaar, July 1995.

"Disasters, Natural and Man-Made: Sociological Reflections on Kobe and Hiroshima." Keynote Address to Conference in Socio-Legal Studies, Kobe, Japan, August 1995.

"Liberty, Equality, Community: a Sociological Analysis." ASA Theory Day, Washington DC, August 1995.

"What, if Anything, is Different about High-Tech Societies?" Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington DC, August 1995.

"The Future of Gender Conflict." University of California, Berkeley, September 1995; University of Virginia, October 1995.

"The Sociology of Intellectual Creativity." Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Charlottesville, Virginia, October 1995.

"Cumulation and Controversy in Micro and Macro-sociology." Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Seattle, March 1996.

"What Does the German Historical Experience Tell us about Democratization?" Amsterdam School of Social Science Research, June 1996.

"Democratization in World-historical Perspective." British Sociological Association Max Weber Study Group Conference, London, June 1996.

Contributions to workshop on networks and culture, Center for Social Research, Columbia University, 1995, 1996.

Contributions to workshop on "The Disruption of Traditional Forms of Nurture", Institute for European and International Studies of Luxembourg, July 1996.

"Tensions between General Sociology and Science and Technology Studies." Joint Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science and European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, Bielefeld, Germany, October 1996.

"Explaining the Scientific Revolution by Comparing Intellectual Networks." Sunbelt Network Meeting, San Diego, February 1997.

"White, Schumpeter, and the Niche-seeking Theory of Capitalism." Sunbelt Network Meeting, San Diego, February 1997.

"Divergence of European and Asian Philosophies: a Sociological View". École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, SHADYC (Sociologie, Histoire, Anthropologie des Dynamiques Culturelles), Marseille, March 1997.

"The Structure of Social Action and the Struggle to Appropriate the Weberian Corpus." Conference on “Talcott Parsons' Structure of Social Action: 60 Years After." Heidelberg University, June 1997.

"Emotion as Key to Reconstructing Social Theory." Conference on Emotion in Social Life and Social Theory, Australian National University, Canberra, July 1997.

"The European Tradition and Twentyfirst Century World Sociology." International Sociological Association/American Sociological Association, Millenial Conference on the Future of Sociology, Toronto, August 1997.

"Critique of Searle's The Construction of Social Reality." Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, August 1997.

"Critique of Gunder Frank's World Development 1400-1800." Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, August 1997.

"Geopolitics and long-term historical change". Social Science History Association, Washington D.C. October 1997.

"A sociology of Emotions." Temple University, October 1997.

"Interaction Ritual Chains and the Interface between Networks and Interaction." Center for the Social Sciences, Columbia University, November 1997.

"Applying Contemporary Religious Sociology to Early Christianity." Society for Scientific Study of Religion meeting, San Diego, November 1997

"Breakdown of State Monopolies on Violence: What happened to the USSR?" Norbert Elias Centenary Conference, Amsterdam, December 1997.

"An Interaction Ritual Theory of Sexuality". Rutgers University, March 1998.

"Networks of Intellectuals and Power Politicians". Eastern Sociological Association meeting, Philadelphia, March 1998.

"The sociology of mysticism: transformations of Ch'an (Zen)". Religious Studies Colloquium Series, University of Pennsylvania, March 1998.

"Geopolitical Theory and the World-System," Political Economy of the World System Conference, Northwestern University, March 1998.

"Long-term Processes of Religious Secularization in Europe and Japan." University of North Carolina, March 1998.

"The Myth of Agency and Structure, or, the Fallacy behind Time Magazine's Man of the Century." Sociology Seminar Series, Johns Hopkins University, April 1998.

"Genesis of the Manifesto in the Post-Hegelian Intellectual Network." Workshop on the Communist Manifesto 150 Years After, New York University, May 1998.

"Substantive Discoveries of American Sociology". Special session on "The Heritage of Sociology," International Sociological Association Meeting, Montreal, July 1998.

"The Cult of the Intellectual Hero". Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 1998 (with Stephan Fuchs).

"Developing Theory of Interaction Ritual Chains". Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 1998.

"Logics of Prediction in Social-Historical Theorizing." Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 1998.

"Social Movements and the Focus of Emotional Attention." Conference on Emotions and Social Movements, New York University, February 1999

"The Dutch Nexus of Intellectual Exchange: Networks in the Seventeenth Century." Conference on "The Culture of Exchange: the Low Countries 1500-1800," University of Pennsylvania, March 1999

"Interaction Rituals and the Construction of Group Boundaries by Sociable Talk about Nature." Round Table on "Social use of nature and identity construction", Studies in Landscape Architecture, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., March 1999.

"Emotional Dynamics of Social Movements." University of New Mexico, April 1999.

"The Sociology of Philosophy: French and American Approaches." Princeton University, April 1999.

"The Interpenetration of World Networks in Multiple Dimensions. " Conference: Bringing Historical Sociology into International Relations, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, July 1999.

"Economic Sociology: the Next Stage," Academy of Management annual meeting, Chicago, August 1999

"Seven Cross-disciplinary Ideas of Twentieth Century Human Sciences," American Sociological Association annual meeting, Chicago, August 1999; University of Maryland, December 1999.

"Reflexivity and Embeddedness in the History of Ethical Philosophies." York University, Philosophy Department Symposium on "The Sociology of Philosophies," Toronto, September 1999.

"Are Liberals or Conservatives More Creative in the History of World Philosophy?" Harvard Club of New York, October 1999.

"Problems of the Social Sciences Housed in an Academic System under Pressures of Credential Inflation." Conference on "Future of the City of Intellect: the Changing American University", University of California Riverside, February 2000.

"Author's response." Author Meets Critics Session on Randall Collins, The Sociology of Philosophies. Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, March 2000.

"Networks, Emotions, and Attention Space: Implications of the Sociology of Philosophies for Sociology." Sorokin Lecture delivered at Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, March 2000; University of Virginia, April 2000.

"The Scientific Revolution: A Network Perspective." History and Sociology of Science Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, March 2000.

"Author's response." Author Meets Critics Session on Randall Collins, ‘The Sociology of Philosophies.’ American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., August 2000.

"The Contributions of Immanuel Wallerstein to Macro-History." American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., August 2000.

"A Theory of Sexual Interaction." Sociology colloquium, University of Wisconsin, September 2000; Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge, October 2000.

"Weber and the Sociology of Revolution." International Symposium on ‘Economy and Society: Max Weber in 2000’, University of Wisconsin, Madison, September 2000.

“The Sociology of Thinking.” University of Exeter, November 2000; Lingnan University, Hong Kong, Nov. 2001.

“The Sociology of Reflexivity and the Reflexivity of Sociologists.” University of Warwick, January 2001.

“A Micro-sociological Theory of Violence.” Social and Political Sciences Seminar, University of Cambridge, January 2001; University College Dublin, February 2001; University of Copenhagen, February 2001; University of Amsterdam May 2001.

“Globalisation in the Twenty-first Century.” Cambridge University Hong Kong and China Affairs Society, February 2001.

“Theoretical Issues in Modernization and Globalization.” St. Patrick’s College Maynooth, National University of Ireland, February 2001.

“A Macro-historical Theory of Democracy.” Trinity College Dublin, February 2001.

“Currents in the Sociology of Mind.” Annual Meeting of Danish Philosophical Society, Copenhagen, February 2001.

“Sociology of Emotion and Social Interaction Theory.” University of Copenhagen, February 2001.

“The Geopolitics of Education and National Identities.” Libera Universita Maria SS. Assuncion, Rome, April 2001

“The Future Crisis of Educational Inflation.” University of Rome 3, April 2001.

“Sociology of Philosophies and its Relation to Sociology of Scientific Knowledge.” Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. April 2001.

"Interaction Ritual Chains and Emotional Energy in Everyday Interactions in Organizations." Academy of Management, Washington D.C. August 2001.

“Did Sociability and Selfishness Change in the Late Twentieth Century?” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Anaheim, August 2001. 37

“Commonality and Divergence of World Intellectual Structures in the Second Millenium CE.” Fernand Braudel Center 25th Anniversary Conference, ‘The Modern World- System in the Long Durée.’ Nov. 2001

“Geopolitics in an Era of Internationalism.” Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Nov. 2001.

“Michael Mann’s Transformation of the Classical Sociological Traditions.” Workshop on “The Anatomy of Power,” UCLA Feb. 2002.

“A Micro-sociological Theory of Violent Conflict.” Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, University of Pennsylvania, Feb. 2002; UCLA, Feb. 2002.

“Hegemonic Declines in Ancient China: Dynastic Cycle or Geopolitical Explanation?” Political Economy of the World System Conference, University of California Riverside, May 2002.

“Networks as actors on the intellectual stage.” Networks in History Sympoosium, Griffith University, Brisbane Australia. July 2002.

“The creativity of social networks and the struggle over attention space.” International Sociological Association, Brisbane, Australia, July 2002.

“Lenski’s Power Theory of Economic Inequality: A central neglected question in stratification research.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 2002.

“From Interaction Ritual to Interaction Ritual Chains.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 2002.

“Individual or Network? Intellectual Creativity and Fame”. University of Amsterdam; debate over “The Sociology of Philosophies”, sponsored by Facta magazine, October 2002.

“Reply to critics.” Author Meets Critics session on The Sociology of Philosophies, Society for Social Studies of Science, Milwaukee, November 2002.

“Democracy as a Structure of Institutionalized Conflict.” keynote address to Swedish Sociological Association, Orebro, Sweden. January 2003.

“The uses of counter-factual history: can there be a theory of historical turning points?” Conference on Contemporary Social Transformations in Historical Perspective, Amsterdam School for Social Research. March 2003.

“Rituals of solidarity and security, and processes of mass hysteria, in the wake of terrorist attack.” Asch Center for Ethnopolitical Conflict, University of Pennsylvania, March 2003.

“A micro-sociological Theory of Violent Conflict.” Kent State University, April 2003.

“Non-violent Movements and the Dynamics of Violence.” International Sociological Association, Research Committee 47 conference, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. July 2003.

“Intellectual Creativity in social networks competing over niches in attention space.” Santa Fe Institute, July 2003.

"How sociological theory can contribute to social robotics." American Sociological Association, Atlanta. August 2003.

“A Micro-sociological Theory of Sexual Interaction.” American Sociological Association, Atlanta. August 2003.

“Geopolitical Theory and Prospects of World Politics.” Institute of International Relations, Novosibirsk, Russia. October 2003.

“Intellectual Networks, Power and Geopolitics.” Novosibirsk State University; Moscow State University; St. Petersburg State University. October 2003.

“Intellectual Networks and Schools of Thought: Prospects and Limits of the Sociology of Philosophy”, Institute of Philosophy, Moscow. October 2003.

“Interaction Ritual Chains as a sociological theory of thinking”. Yale University, November 2003.

“Science’s relation to religion in historical perspective.” Metanexus Institute, January 2004.

“The micro and macro sociology of terrorism.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 2004.

“Micro-sociology from Goffman to Interaction Ritual Chains.” Alpha Kappa Delta Lecture, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 2004.

“Interaction ritual, forward panic, and violent atrocities.” Workshop on Emotions, Crime and Justice, at the International Institution for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain, September 2004.

“Which persons are violent, and when? A micro-sociological theory.” University of Notre Dame, October 2004.

“A micro-sociological theory of carousing and entertainment violence.” University of Galway, Ireland, October 2004.

“Interaction rituals and the micro-sociology of violence.” Princeton University, January 2005.

“A conversation with Randall Collins.” Eastern Sociological Society meeting, Washington D.C., March 2005.

“Author meets critics: Randall Collins, Interaction Ritual Chains.” Eastern Sociological Society meeting, Washington D.C., March 2005.

“Rationalization in Neo-Weberian Perspective.” Waseda University, Tokyo, May 2005.

“Post-modernity as Hyper-bureaucratization.” Waseda University, Tokyo, May 2005.

“A Theory of Carousing Violence.” World Congress of Criminology, Philadelphia, August, 2005.

“A Theory of Player Violence in Sports.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, August 2005.

“Author meets critics: Randall Collins, Interaction Ritual Chains.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, August 2005.

“Culture as Cult.” Tumin Lecture, Princeton University. October 2005; also delivered at University of Arizona, Feb. 2006; New School for Social Research, Feb. 2006; University of Michigan, April 2006; keynote address at conference on culture, University of California San Diego, May 2006.

“The look of violence: studying violent interactions through photographic evidence.” Criminology Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, Feb. 2006.

“Interaction rituals, civility and conflict in everyday life.” Piet Zwart Institute, William de Kooning Academy of Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. March 2006.

“Constructing entities out of flux: time-dynamics in sociological theory.” Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, August 2006.

“Theories of Mass Violence.” Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, August 2006.

“The Network is the Actor on the Stage of History: Intellectual Reputation and Social Networks of Creativity.” Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern University, October 2006.

“Confrontational Tension: Effects of Emotions on Victory, Defeat, and Atrocities in Combat.” U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, November 2006.

“Secularization: Religious and Political.” Key Note Address to Amsterdam School of Social Research Twentieth Anniversary Conference, January 2007.

“Hard and soft globalization: The global and the geopolitical.” Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, March 2007.

“Bluster and violence on urban streets.” Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, March 2007.

“The Ground Zero of Violence: Confrontational Tension and Incompetence in Combat.” Thematic session on “War and violence from the ground up.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, August 2007.

“Teaching Sociology of Violence.” Teaching Workshop of Sociology of Peace, War, Military Institutions, and Social Conflict. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, August 2007.

“Geo-Politics and the Long-Term Construction of Democracy.” Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar Lecture Series, University of Pennsylvania, September 2007.

“Confrontational Tension: A Micro-Sociological Theory of Violence.” Theory Workshop, University of Iowa, October 2007.

“The Four M’s of Religion: Magic, Membership, Morality, and Mysticism.” H. Paul Douglass Lecture, Religious Research Association, Tampa, Florida, November 2007.

“Geopolitical Theory and State Breakdown Theory: Lessons from the Fall of the Soviet Bloc.” Mackinder Forum, Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre, Ministry of Defence, UK, November 2007.

“The Four-function Model: Talcott Parsons’ Enduring Contribution to Sociology.” Martel Memorial Lecture, Brown University, February 2008.

“The sociology of long-term social change.” Society for the Study of World History at the University of Pennsylvania, April 2008.

“Patrimonial Alliances and Failures of State Penetration: an Historical Dynamic of Crime, Corruption, Gangs and Mafias.” Conference on Patrimonialism, Yale University, May 2008. 41

“Social Networks and Cultural creativity.” National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan. May 2008.

“Mythologies and Realities of Violence.” National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan. May 2008.

“Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory.” London School of Economics, June 2008; Department of Sociology, Oxford University, June 2008.

“Drug Consumption: A Social Ritual? The Example of Tobacco.” Conference “Drugs and Culture,” Organisation Français des Drogues et des Toxicomanies. Paris, December 2008.

“What do Micro-observational Methods Tell Us about the Sociology of Violence?” Symposium on Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri St. Louis. February 2009.

“The Fog of War Meets the Computer Revolution-- or War as a Micro-Macro Problem.” Culture and Interaction Workshop, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, March 2009; also presented in Evolution of Organizations and Industries Seminar, Wharton School, April 2009.

“Which Criminal Organizations Produce Most Violence? A Preliminary Analysis of Gang Types and Organized Crime.” Jerry Lee Center for Criminology, University of Pennsylvania, March 2009.

“Emotions of Stratification and Conflict.” Emotions Matter Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. May 2009.

“Technological Displacement and Capitalist Crisis: Escapes and Dead Ends.” Sociological Review Hundredth Anniversary Conference, Stratford-on-Avon, England. June 2009.

“Ritual Boundary Violence and Bureaucratic Callousness: Two Structural Causes of Cruelty.” Conference on Institutions of Cruelty, German Sociological Association, Rostock, Germany. June 2009.

“The Theoretical Significance of Emotions for Sociology.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 2009.

“Violence as it Actually Happens: Myths and Realities of Violence in Micro-sociological Perspective.” Bone Memorial Lecture, Illinois State University, Normal Illinois. October 2009; Argonne National Laboratory, November 2009.

“Fire as weapon and symbol in conflict.” Colloquium on Fire in Human Evolution, History, and Society. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands. December 2009.

“Dominance in Social Attention Space: the Law of Small Numbers in Intellectual Networks and in Violent Careers.” Survey Research Center, University of Michigan, February 2010.

“Explaining the Anti-Soviet Revolutions by State Breakdown Theory and Geopolitical Theory.” Workshop on “The End of the Cold War after Twenty Years: Reconsiderations, Retrospectives, and Revisions.” Princeton University, March 2010.

“Who has been a successful public intellectual? Historical comparisons and conditions.” District of Columbia Sociological Society, March 2010.

“Entering and Leaving the Tunnel of Violence: Sociological Dynamics of Self- Entrainment in Severe Violence.” International Sociological Association meeting, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 2010.

“Critique of Michel Wieviorka, On Violence.” International Sociological Association meeting, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 2010.

“Author response to critics.” Panel on Randall Collins, Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory. International Sociological Association meeting, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 2010.

Didactic Seminar on Neuroscience and the Social Nature of the Self. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 2010.

“Dynamics of mass education: Keynesian stimulus or credential inflation?” Conference on Social Dimensions of Modernization. Moscow, Russian Federation, September 2010.

“The Long-term construction of democracy: a sociological/ geopolitical theory.” Institute of Philosophy, Moscow, Russian Federation, September 2010.

“The emotions of social classes: evidence from visual ethnography.” Keynote address, Yale Ethnography Conference, November 2010.

“Public Festivals: Ritual Successes, Failures, and Mediocrities.” Keynote address, Conference on Creativity Culture and Democracy in Art Festivals, Euro-Festival Commission, Bologna, Italy, November 2010.

“The invention and diffusion of micro-sociological techniques of violence: a micro- interactional contribution to explaining historical trends in violence.” Instituto Carlo Cattaneo, Bologna, Italy, November 2010.

“Does National Sentiment Increase Fighting Efficacy? A Skeptical View from the Sociology of Violence.” Conference on Nationalisms and War, McGill University, Montréal, Canada, March 2011.

“Time-Bubbles of Nationalism: Dynamics of Solidarity Rituals in Lived Time.” Ernest Gellner Nationalism Lecture, London School of Economics, April 2011.

“Violence as it really happens: the micro-sociology of violent confrontations.” Beers Lecture in Sociological Theory, University of Kentucky, April 2011.

“The emotions of social class and the presentation of status in everyday life.” University of Kentucky, April 2011.

“The Micro-Sociology of Violence.” Observatoire sociologique du changement (OSC) and Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI), Paris, May 2011.

“The credential society revisited: on the dynamics of educational inflation.” Ecole des Sciences Politiques, Paris, May 2011.

“Time-dynamics of conflict: a Theory of Counter-Escalation and De-escalation.” ISCTE, Lisbon University Institute, Portugal, May 2011.

“A General Theory of Battle Victory and Defeat.” Opening address, European Research Group on Military and Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 2011.

“Information Technology, the Disappearance of Middle-Class Work, and the Long-term Crisis of Capitalism.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Las Vegas, August 2011.

“Counter-Escalation and De-escalation: A Theory of the Time-Dynamics of Conflict.” Presidential Address, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Las Vegas, August 2011. Also delivered at University of Zaragoza, Spain, November 2011.

“Garfinkel and the Great Turn in 20th Century Sociology and the Human Sciences.” Conference in Memory of Harold Garfinkel, UCLA, October 2011.

“Informalization of Manners and Self-presentation, and How to Explain It.” Rosenberg Lecture, University of Maryland, October 2011.

"The Micro-Sociology of Violence." University of Zaragoza, Spain, November 2011.

Author-meets-critics session on Charles Camic, Neil Gross, and Michele Lamont, Social Knowledge in the Making. Eastern Sociological Society, New York City, February 2012.

"Historical Trajectories and Social Conditions of Gangs, Mafias, and Criminal Organizations: Some World Comparisons and Lessons about Violence." 44

Plenary Address to National Social Science Congress, Mexico City, March 2012.

"The Micro-Sociology of Violent Confrontations." Facultad de Ciencias Politicas y Sociales, Universidad National de Mexico, March 2012.

"Capulets, Montagues, and Modern Feuds." Lantern Theatre Scholars in Conversation, March 2012.

"Mysticism amid the Four 'M's' of Religion. Chabad and the Academy Conference, University of Pennsylvania, March 2012.

"The Future of Violence: What Is High Tech Doing to Violent Conflict?" Robin Williams Lecture, University of California, Irvine, April 2012

"Is Social Class Becoming Invisible? Informalization of Manners and Self-Presentation, and What Causes It." University of North Carolina/Duke University Joint Colloquium, April 2012

"Self-presentation of Social Class Goes Invisible." Yale Conference on Inequality, September 2012

"Information Technology, the Disappearance of Middle-Class Work, and the Long-term Crisis of Capitalism." Princeton University, September 2012

"High Tech at its Cutting Edge: the Computerization of Military Combat," Princeton University, September 2012

"War on Friction: the Computerization of Military Organization," Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, October 2012

"Interaction Rituals, Moral Ideas, and Predicting Human Behavior." Edward Westermarck Lecture, The Westermarck Society (national sociological association of Finland), Helsinki, November 2012.

"Micro-sociology of solidarity, micro-sociology of violence: the emotional dynamics of situations." University of Helsinki, November 2012.

"Protests, Riots, and Political Violence." Humboldt University Berlin, February 2013.

"Gangs, Mafias and Cartels: What Determines the Forms of Organized Crime?" Pomona College, February 2013.

"Micro-sociology of violent confrontations." Conference on Close Violence, Libera Universita Maria Sanctissima Assuncion, Rome, March 2013.

"Marx, Weber, and Mann." Panel on Michael Mann's The Sources of Social Power. UCLA, March 2013.

"High-tech War in Theory and Reality." Changing Character of War Conference, Frontline: combat and cohesion in Iraq and Afghanistan. All Souls College, Oxford, March 2013.

"Solving the Mona Lisa Smile, and Other Developments in Micro-Empirical Sociology." Sociology Department, University of Oxford, March 2013.

"World-system cycles and proletarianizing the electronic middle class." Keynote address, Political Economy of the World-System Conference, Riverside California, April 2013.

"The High of Cultural Experience. Towards a micro-sociology of cultural consumption." with Claudio Benzecry. Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association, New York, August 2013.

"Solving the Mona Lisa Smile, and Other Developments in Visual Micro-Sociology." Urban Ethnography Workshop, Yale University, September 2013.

"Violence as Emotional Dominance: Micro-sociological Causes." Distinguished Lecture, University of Cardiff, Wales, September 2013.

"Downstream from Goffman: Some Subsequent Research Trends." Symposium on Goffman and the Interaction Order, Thirty Years On; University of Cardiff, Wales, September 2013.

"The Emotional Dynamics of Violent Situations." Keynote Address, Conference on Extraordinary Violence. University of Giessen, Germany, November 2013.

"Criminal organizations as political forms: Comparing successes and failures of Mafias." Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 2013.

"Violent Attention Space: A Theory of the Situational Dynamics of Violence." Graduate Center, City University of New York, April 4, 2014

University of Copenhagen, short PhD course on sociology of violence, May 2014. Micro-sociology of violence; Macro-sociology of military violence.

"Crowd Violence and the Mona Lisa Smile: Insights from Visual Micro-Sociology." Public lecture, University of Copenhagen, May 2014.

Street violence research group, Centre of Resolution of International Conflicts, University of Copenhagen, May 2014.

"Asymmetrical war in ancient and modern times." Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft. June 2014

"Violence in the USA: Social dynamics of school shootings." Freie Universität Berlin, Graduate School of North American Studies, May-June 2014.

Author-critics session on Randol Contreras, The Stick-Up Kids. Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 2014.

"China vs. USA: Will Geopolitical Competition Lead To War?" Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 2014.

"Tipping-point Revolutions and Structural Crisis Revolutions." Keynote address to Congress of the German Sociological Association, University of Trier, Germany, October 2014.

"Le capitalisme a-t-il un avenir?" Lancement of La Découverte edition, Paris, November 2014.

"Information Technology, Disappearance of Middle-Class Work, and the Long-Term Crisis of Capitalism." University of Texas /Austin, Power, History and Society Network. February 2015.

Scheduled:

"When Violence Happens or Not: Emotion Dynamics of Violent Situations." University of West Virginia, Research Center on Violence. 20 March 2015.

"Emotional Micro-details that Drive Social Interactions." Yale Workshop in Urban Ethnography, April 2015

"Micro-sociology of Sport: Interaction Ritual, Emotional Energy, and Emotional Domination." Keynote address, conference of the European Association for Sociology of Sport, Dublin, Ireland, 10-13 June 2015.

Panel on Sociology of Sexuality, American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 2015.

Panel on "Becoming Mead: the Social Process of Academic Knowledge." American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 2015.

Panel on "A Critical Appraisal of the Work of Christopher Chase-Dunn." American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 2015.

"Emotion -- Interaction -- Violence." Maurice Halbwachs Summer School, University of Gottingen, German. October 5-9, 2015.

Book reviews in:

Contemporary Sociology American Journal of Sociology American Political Science Review Sociological Quarterly Comparative Education Review Theory and Society Journal of Political and Military Sociology Change: the Magazine of Higher Learning Administrative Science Quarterly Harvard Educational Review Social Forces Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion Berkeley Journal of Sociology Sociology and Social Research Society Semiotica Ethics Qualitative Sociology Theory, Culture, and Society European Sociological Review Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia Shofar: Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Isis Men and Masculinities Contexts History and Theory City and Community International Criminal Justice Review Sociologia [Italian] International Sociology Review of Books Common Knowledge International Politics Reviews