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Full CV

Education:

1963  A.B. Harvard College

1964  M.A., Psychology, Stanford University

1969  Ph.D., Sociology, University of California Berkeley

Research:

• Sociological Theory
• Macro-Historical Sociology of Political and Economic Change
• Micro-Sociology: Face-to-Face Interaction
• Sociology of Intellectuals
• Social Conflict (Especially Violent Conflict)

Selected Publications:

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

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

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

2004. Interaction Ritual Chains. Princeton University Press.

2002. The New Economic Sociology. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. (co-editor with Mauro Guillen, Paula England, Marshall Meyer)

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

1998. The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change. Harvard University Press. (translations in Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Italian and Iranian)

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

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.

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.

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

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

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. “Credential Inflation and the Future of Universities.” In Steve Brint (ed.), The Future of the City of Intellect. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

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

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.

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