SOC224H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Randall Collins, Collective Effervescence, Structural Functionalism
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But with the wanting of religious influence, contemporary theorists have pondered, new, broader relations between schools and morality. Most approaches presume that contemporary socialize asian in schools is hidden, that is, tacit or implicit. Durkheim"s ideas about the capacity of rituals and symbols to generate social bonds in solidarity. Over the past decade randall collins has revised this thinking and his own theory of micro level interaction. Collins begins by noting that social settings very greatly in their capacity to coax people to each focus their attention on the same thing. Some encourage people to sync their moods, bodily rhythms, thoughts, and feelings together: this process is well call him calls emotional entrainment. Emotional entrainment: easier in small groups, it is when social interaction is enhanced by people attuning their emotional states together: this entrainment occurs easily and spontaneously in small. Collective effervescence: a feeling of group membership that can groups of friends and family members invigorate and energized people.
