Status, power and ritual interaction a relational reading of Durkheim, Goffman, and Collins

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Status and power -- Derivations from status-power theory -- Status-power and collective effervescence : I -- Status-power and collective effervescence : II -- Ritual : Goffman's big idea -- Situation, occasion, gathering, encounter and social relations -- Reading Goffman in status-power terms -- Collins's interaction ritual -- Collins's power and status rituals -- Talking, talks, thinking, and thought -- Entrainment, mutual entrainment and self-entrainment -- Emotions : status-power vs. interaction ritual theory -- Sex and love -- Prediction and postdiction.