Exploring the Sociological Re-Imagining of Politics: A Conversation

In this conversation Rolland Munro discusses with Randall Collins the turn to the everyday in sociology in the 1960s and explores with him some of the thinking at the time. The discussion centres on the view that Goffman and Garfinkel helped open up notions of the political. As Collins explains, the effect of their work was not merely to create a ‘micro-politics’, as it came to be called, but over the subsequent ways others like Collins could then widen political understandings about the intricate relations between conflict and everyday struggles and division.