How Long to Read Status, Power and Ritual Interaction

How Long Does it Take to Read Status, Power and Ritual Interaction?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read Status, Power and Ritual Interaction by Professor Theodore D Kemper

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Sociologists Émile Durkheim, Erving Goffman and Randall Collins broadly suppose that ritual is foundational for social life. By contrast, this book argues that ritual is merely surface, beneath which lie status and power, the behavioral dimensions that drive all social interaction. Status, Power and Ritual Interaction identifies status and power as the twin forces that structure social relations, determine emotions and link individuals to the reference groups that deliver culture and administer preferences, actions, beliefs and ideas. An especially important contention is that allegiance to ideas, even those as fundamental as the belief that 1 + 1 = 2, is primarily faithfulness to the reference groups that foster the ideas and not to the ideas themselves. This triggers the counter-intuitive deduction that the self, a concept many sociologists, social psychologists and therapists prize so highly, is feckless and irrelevant. Status-power theory leads also to derivations about motivation, play, humor, sacred symbols, social bonding, creative thought, love and sex and other social involvements now either obscure or misunderstood. Engaging with Durkheim (on collective effervescence), Goffman (on ritual-cum-public order) and Collins (on interaction ritual), this book is richly illustrated with instances of how to examine many central questions about society and social interaction from the status-power perspective. It speaks not only to sociologists, but also to anthropologists, behavioral economists and social and clinical psychologists - to all disciplines that examine or treat of social life.

How long is Status, Power and Ritual Interaction?

Status, Power and Ritual Interaction by Professor Theodore D Kemper is 336 pages long, and a total of 86,016 words.

This makes it 113% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Status, Power and Ritual Interaction Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read Status, Power and Ritual Interaction aloud.

What Reading Level is Status, Power and Ritual Interaction?

Status, Power and Ritual Interaction is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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