RANDALL COLLINS AND THE MACROHISTORY OF SOCIAL CHANGES AS A RETURN TO THE CLASSICAL THEORETICAL HERITAGE IN SOCIOLOGY Cover Image

РЕНДАЛ КОЛИНС И МАКРОИСТОРИЈА ДРУШТВЕНИХ ПРОМЕНА КАО ПОВРАТАК КЛАСИЧНОМ ТЕОРИЈСКОМ НАСЛЕЂУ У СОЦИОЛОГИЈИ
RANDALL COLLINS AND THE MACROHISTORY OF SOCIAL CHANGES AS A RETURN TO THE CLASSICAL THEORETICAL HERITAGE IN SOCIOLOGY

Author(s): Aleksej Kišjuhas, Marko Škorić
Subject(s): Social history, Evaluation research, Social differentiation, Nationalism Studies, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Српско социолошко друштво
Keywords: macrohistory; macrosociology; social change; revolution; ethnicity; nationalism;

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes the macrohistory of social change in the work of Randall Collins, with a special focus on the phenomena of revolution and the sociogenesis of ethnicity, or nationalism, americanization and balkanization. This aspect of his work is of particular importance because Collins is primarily known as a theorist of radical microsociology and social interaction. However, it is argued that his work on macrohistory and his usage of comparative historical analysis generates a specific macrosociological theory of social change, or a macrosociology of revolutions and the macrosociology of ethnicity. In this sense, this paper also deals with the (inter)relationship between history and sociology, together with the issues such as the future of ethnicity and nationalism, as well as the origins of ethnically motivated violence after the collapse of socialist states (like Yugoslavia).

  • Issue Year: 50/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 179-207
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Serbian