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Writings by the sociologist Randall Collins

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2026 6

  1. IS THE WORLD MADE OF NOUNS OR VERBS? WHY GREAT TEAMS DON'T LAST; AND OTHER MATTERS
  2. ANTI-MODERN MODERNISM AND ITS ANTIDOTE: JAMES JOYCE AND HART CRANE'S THE BRIDGE
  3. MEDICINE IS NOT AN ADVANCED SCIENCE
  4. WORLD HISTORY UPDATED: WEBER, MARX, AND FUTURE TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
  5. WAR AND ABSURDITY: CATCH-22 IS REALITY
  6. THREE GENDER PREDICTIONS

2025 4

  1. GATSBY versus TRIMALCHIO
  2. A GENERAL THEORY OF LONGEVITY AND DEATH
  3. ELON MUSK'S MANAGEMENT STYLE
  4. TERRORISM ATTACKS ICONIC TIMES AND PLACES

2024 3

  1. SELF-SEGREGATING CONVERSATIONS IN PUBLIC BY GENDER, AGE, AND CLASS
  2. BIRTH RATE DECLINE IS THE SOLUTION TO GLOBAL WARMING
  3. SOCIOLOGY OF THE GAZA WAR

2023 4

  1. AI-ROBOT CAPITALISTS WILL DESTROY THE HUMAN ECONOMY
  2. INSIDER RESEARCH IN MAFIA, STREET GANGS, TERRORISTS AND NEO-FASCISTS
  3. CREDENTIAL INFLATION MAKES COLLEGE DEGREE NOT WORTH THE COST
  4. THREE POLICE TACTICS LED TO MEMPHIS KILLING OF TYRE NICHOLS

2022 6

  1. SEXUAL REVOLUTIONS AND THE FUTURE OF THE FAMILY
  2. Multi-causal Bottom Line
  3. PREDICTABLES OF THE UKRAINE WAR
  4. DEAF OR BLIND: BEETHOVEN, HANDEL
  5. WHY STATES DIFFER ON REFUGEES AND IMMIGRATION
  6. FIVE KINDS OF FRIENDS

2021 4

  1. COLLAPSE OF THE TUTORIAL-PROXY STATE: AFGHANISTAN 2021, PHILIPPINES 1942, VIETNAM 1975 AND OTHERS
  2. RANDALL COLLINS INTERVIEW: HOW I WRITE; IS EDUCATION NECESSARY; MICRO-RESEARCH ON POLITICS
  3. DOES MASCULINITY EXPLAIN VIOLENCE?
  4. ASSAULT ON THE CAPITOL: 2021, 1917, 1792

2020 5

  1. WILLIAM JAMES WHOLE-BODY PSYCHOLOGY, WITH A THEORY OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
  2. SOCIOLOGY OF MASKS AND SOCIAL DISTANCING
  3. SEVEN REASONS WHY POLICE ARE DISLIKED
  4. DOCTORS AT WAR: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL COST
  5. PREDICTING WORLD WAR THREE, PREDICTING CLIMATE CATASTROPHE

2019 3

  1. DOWNFALL OF NCAA WOULD IMPROVE AMERICAN EDUCATION
  2. MARILYN MONROE’S NETWORKS PULLED HER APART
  3. DO MIYAMOTO MUSASHI’S ZEN SAMURAI TECHNIQUES APPLY TO EVERYTHING?

2018 5

  1. WHAT MADE THE GREATEST COACH IN ANY SPORT?
  2. EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIAL INFLATION: AN INTERVIEW WITH RANDALL COLLINS
  3. SHUTTING DOWN THE INTERNET IN TIME OF WAR
  4. GUN CULTS
  5. DEFEATING SEXUAL AGGRESSION: EVEN HARVEY WEINSTEIN MOSTLY FAILED

2017 5

  1. NORTH KOREA: WHEN DOES NUCLEAR WAR BEGIN?
  2. NORTH KOREA ICBMs: A COLD WAR SOLUTION
  3. FACES AROUND A DICTATOR: NORTH KOREA
  4. TRUMP'S SAD FACE
  5. WHEN ARE WOMEN CHARISMATIC LEADERS? JOAN OF ARC, CLEOPATRA, MADAME MAO ZEDONG

2016 7

  1. TRUMP AND THE SOPRANOS
  2. A HOBBESIAN SOLUTION TO THE SYRIAN REFUGEE CRISIS
  3. DOES CHARISMA WIN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS?
  4. CAN THE WAR BETWEEN COPS AND BLACKS BE DE-ESCALATED?
  5. DOES TRUMP HAVE CHARISMA? WHAT IS CHARISMA ANYWAY?
  6. COOL-HEADED COPS NEEDED: HEART RATE MONITORS CAN HELP
  7. WHAT HAS MICRO-SOCIOLOGY ACCOMPLISHED?

2015 5

  1. EVEN WITHOUT GUN CONTROL, WARNING SIGNS CAN HELP STOP MASS KILLINGS
  2. MONA LISA IS NO MYSTERY FOR MICRO-SOCIOLOGY
  3. FOUR REQUISITES FOR SUCCESS OR FAILURE IN ANYTHING
  4. THE NETWORKS OF LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
  5. WHY DOES SEXUAL REPRESSION EXIST?

2014 5

  1. TANK MAN AND THE LIMITS OF TELEPHOTO LENSES: OR, HOW MUCH CAN INDIVIDUALS STOP VIOLENCE?
  2. JESUS IN INTERACTION: THE MICRO-SOCIOLOGY OF CHARISMA
  3. REALLY BAD FAMILY VALUES; WITH AN HISTORICAL EXPLANATION OF THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX
  4. WHAT MADE ALEXANDER GREAT?
  5. NAPOLEON AS CEO: A CAREER OF EMOTIONAL ENERGY

2013 3

  1. SANDY HOOK SCHOOL SHOOTINGS: LESSONS FOR GUN-OWNING PARENTS
  2. GOFFMAN AND GARFINKEL IN THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE OF THE 20th CENTURY
  3. TIPPING POINT REVOLUTIONS AND STATE BREAKDOWN REVOLUTIONS: WHY REVOLUTIONS SUCCEED OR FAIL

2012 3

  1. CLUES TO MASS RAMPAGE KILLERS: DEEP BACKSTAGE, HIDDEN ARSENAL, CLANDESTINE EXCITEMENT
  2. DRUG BUSINESS IS NOT THE KEY TO GANGS AND ORGANIZED CRIME: WITH A PROGNOSIS FOR THE MEXICAN CARTEL WARS
  3. MOBY DICK AND HEMINGWAY’S BULLS: ON THE LEARNING OF TECHNIQUES OF VIOLENCE

2011 3

  1. THE INFLATION OF BULLYING: FROM FAGGING TO CYBER-EFFERVESCENT SCAPEGOATING
  2. INTERACTION RITUALS AND THE NEW ELECTRONIC MEDIA
  3. EMOTIONAL ENERGY AND THE CULT OF FREE WILL

2010 1

  1. Simmelian Numbers