{"id":38,"date":"2008-02-14T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/2008\/02\/14\/randall-collins-on-violence\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T08:41:06","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T14:41:06","slug":"randall-collins-on-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2008\/02\/14\/randall-collins-on-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Randall Collins on Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/files\/2008\/02\/fight.jpg\" alt=\"fight.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/71206\">New York Sun review<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssc.upenn.edu\/soc\/People\/collinsrandall.html\">Randall Collins<\/a>&#8216; new book <em>Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory<\/em>,<em> <\/em>highlights Collins&#8217; distance from macro-level analysis based on history and demographics in favor of a method which seeks out individual cases to identify the conditions present at the time the violence was committed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Review author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/71206\">Graeme Wood<\/a> highlights Collins&#8217; tentative conclusions:<br \/>\n&#8220;Mr. Collins concludes with recommendations: Educate soldiers about forward panic and how easily it can feed its own appetite (addictively, &#8216;like eating salted nuts&#8217;). Learn how to defuse dangerous situations by matching an aggressor&#8217;s bluster without seeming to top it. And, most interesting of all, he urges us to consider reviving the practice of dueling \u2014 which was, during its heyday, a way to reduce and contain violence, not a way to encourage it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Sun review of Randall Collins&#8216; new book Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory, highlights Collins&#8217; distance from macro-level analysis based on history and demographics in favor of a method which seeks out individual cases to identify the conditions present at the time the violence was committed. Review author Graeme Wood highlights Collins&#8217; tentative conclusions: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[133],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}