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Randall Collins
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Randall Collins is an American sociologist, writer, and university teacher born in Knoxville on July 29, 1941.
Collins was educated at Harvard University, Stanford University, and the University of California, Berkeley. He holds the position of Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor of Sociology, emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania, and served as president of the American Sociological Association from 2010 to 2011.
Among his publications is The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change, issued in 1998. Collins also received the Ludwik Fleck Prize, an honor that marks a notable point in his career as a sociologist writing in English.
Quotes by Randall Collins
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It is not literally true that a picture is worth a thousand words. Most people will not see what is in a picture, or will see it through the most readily available visual cliches. It takes training and an analytical vocabulary to talk about what is in a picture, and to know what to look for. A picture is worth a thousand words only for those who already have internalized an adequate vocabulary.
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The outsider sees details as meaningless, or doesn’t see the details at all. That is what makes most of us outsiders.
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The reality for those in the successful inner circle is simply “the mundanity of excellence”: a smoothly applied routine of using finely tuned resources with the confidence that one knows how to make them pay off. To those in the outer tiers, even those in the second competitive rank, there seems to be some mysterious quality that the successful possess, and this sense of difference generates a barrier of anxiety which makes it all the more impassable.
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The Friendship School has been a success, a big success. Many of the solutions for educational funding are going to rest on a regional basis.
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The most successful exploiter is the one who makes others feel that he or she has their best interests at heart.
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