Reviving classical attention to gathering times as sites of transformation and building on more recent microsociological work, this paper uses qualitative data to show how social occasions open up unexpected bursts of change in the lives of those attending. They do this by pulling people into a special realm apart from normal life, generating collective effervescence and emotional energy, bringing usually disparate people together, forcing public rankings, and requiring complex choreography, all of which combine to make occasions sites of inspiration and connection as well as sites of offense and violation. Rather than a time out from “real” life, social occasions hold an outsized potential to unexpectedly shift the course that real life takes. Implications for microsociology, social inequality, and the life course are considered.

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参加更多派对？社会场合是生活轨迹意外转折的地方

这篇文章重新唤起了人们对收集时间的关注，将其作为转变的场所，并以最新的微观社会学工作为基础，使用定性数据来显示社交场合如何在参与者的生活中带来意想不到的变化。他们通过将人们带入正常生活之外的特殊境界，产生集体的冒泡和情感能量，将通常分散的人们聚集在一起，迫使公众排名，并需要复杂的编排来实现这一点，所有这些结合起来使场合成为灵感和联系的场所。以及冒犯和违反的地点。社交场合具有巨大的潜力，而不是从“现实”生活中抽出时间，可以意外地改变现实生活的发展方向。考虑了对微观社会学，社会不平等和生活历程的影响。