This paper explores the ways nationalism has been theorised in classical and contemporary sociology. More specifically, the author analyses the relevance of Randall Collins’s contribution to theories of nationalism. Since Collins’s work is firmly rooted in the classical tradition, including the reinterpretation and synthesis of Weber, Durkheim and Goffman, the first part of this paper zooms in on the classics of sociology and their treatment of nations and nationalism. The second part of the paper outlines the key features of Collins’s approach and identifies the strengths and weaknesses of this position. The final part builds on the footsteps of Collins and others to articulate an alternative approach focused on the coercive organisational, ideological and micro-interactional grounding of nationalisms.

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扎根民族主义：兰德尔柯林斯和民族社会学

本文探讨了民族主义在古典和当代社会学中被理论化的方式。更具体地说，作者分析了兰德尔柯林斯对民族主义理论的贡献的相关性。由于柯林斯的著作牢固地植根于古典传统，包括对韦伯、涂尔干和戈夫曼的重新解释和综合，本文的第一部分重点关注社会学经典及其对民族和民族主义的处理。论文的第二部分概述了柯林斯方法的主要特征，并确定了这一立场的优势和劣势。最后一部分以柯林斯和其他人的足迹为基础，阐明了另一种方法，重点是民族主义的强制性组织、意识形态和微观互动基础。