Randall Collins: Community

Randall Collins is American sociologist. Explore interesting quotes on community.

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“There is no thinking except as aftermath or preparation of communication.”

Randall Collins

Source: The Sociology of Philosophies (1998), p. 2

“Intellectual life hinges on face-to-face situations because interaction rituals can take place only on this level. Intellectual sacred objects can be created and sustained only if there are ceremonial gatherings to worship them. This is what lectures, conferences, discussions, and debates do: they gather the intellectual community, focus members’ attention on a common object uniquely their own, and build up distinctive emotions around those objects.”

Randall Collins

Source: The Sociology of Philosophies (1998), p. 26

““Truth” is the reigning sacred object of the scholarly community, as “art” is for literary/artistic communities; these are simultaneously their highest cognitive and moral categories, the locus of highest value, by which all else is judged.”

Randall Collins

Source: The Sociology of Philosophies (1998), p. 19