This paper focuses on what could be learned about statuses and status groups from the work of Randall Collins in the 1980s, and in particular from Weberian Sociological Theory (1986). I mention how I myself found this book useful at that time to further my own work in the sociology of science and in sociological theory, and emphasise its value in appreciating the fundamental and irremediable deficiencies of individualistic rational choice theory in both contexts. I go on to note how Collins, a ‘macro’ sociologist in the 1980s, was nonetheless well aware of the indispensable role of micro-sociology in advancing the fundamental understanding of the field as a whole, and his singling out of Erving Goffman and Harold Garfinkel as primus inter pares for their special theoretical importance at this time. I say a little about why these two did indeed have much to contribute to an understanding of statuses and of status groups and still do even today, and end by noting how effectively Collins has used and built upon the work of Goffman in particular since the 1980s.

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兰德尔柯林斯关于状态组和状态

本文重点介绍可以从兰德尔柯林斯在 1980 年代的工作中，特别是从韦伯社会学理论 (1986) 中学到的关于地位和地位群体的知识。我提到我自己当时如何发现这本书对我在科学社会学和社会学理论方面的工作很有用，并强调了它的价值，在这两种情况下，认识到个人主义理性选择理论的根本性和不可弥补的缺陷。我继续指出 1980 年代的“宏观”社会学家柯林斯如何仍然清楚地意识到微观社会学在推进对整个领域的基本理解方面不可或缺的作用，以及他从欧文·戈夫曼和哈罗德中脱颖而出Garfinkel 作为 primus inter pares 因其在此时的特殊理论重要性而受到重视。