The second half discusses how such activities as sex, smoking, and social stratification are shaped by interaction ritual chains.

Sex, smoking, and social stratification are three very different social phenomena. And yet, argues sociologist Randall Collins, they and much else in our social

Sex, smoking, and social stratification are three very different social phenomena. And yet, argues sociologist Randall Collins, they and much else in our social

"Not then, men and their moments. Rather, moment and their men," writes Erving Goffman in the introduction to his groundbreaking 1967 Interaction Ritual, a stud

Microsociologists seek to capture social life as it is experienced, and in recent decades no one has championed the microsociological approach more fiercely tha