1986 – Weberian Sociological Theory 1988 – Theoretical Sociology 1992 – Sociological Insight: An Introduction to Non-Obvious Sociology 2nd ed. 1994 – Four Sociological Traditions 1998 – The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change 1999 – Macro-History 2004 – Interaction Ritual Chains 2008 – Violence: A Microsociological Theory 2015 – Napoleon Never Slept (with Maren McConnell) 2020 - Micro-sociology of Power and Influence Fiction writing Early in his career, Collins left academia on several occasions to write fiction. One of his novels is The Case of the Philosopher's Ring, featuring Sherlock Holmes. References External links Randall Collins' blog The Sociological Eye http://sociology.sas.upenn.edu/r_collins http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/theoryatmadison/papers/rcollins.pdf Living people American sociologists 1941 births Harvard College alumni Stanford University alumni UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni University of Pennsylvania faculty Sociologists of science Family sociologists