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Collision of Wills collision wills of How Ambiguity about Social Rank Breeds Conflict Roger V. Gould Foreword by Peter Bearman The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London Roger V. Gould was professor of sociology and political science at Yale University and, from 1990 to 2000, taught sociology at the University of Chicago. He wrote Insurgent Identities: Class, Community, and Protest in Paris from 1848 to the Commune(1995) and edited Rational Choice Controversy in Historical Sociology (2001), both published by the University of Chicago Press. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2003 by Erin Graves All rights reserved. Published 2003 Printed in the United States of America 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 1 2 3 4 5 ISBN: 0-226-30548-1 (cloth) ISBN: 0-226-30550-3 (paper) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gould, Roger V. Collision of wills : how ambiguity about social rank breeds con?ict / Roger V. Gould ; foreword by Peter Bearman. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-226-30548-1 (alk. paper)—ISBN 0-226-30550-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Social con?ict. 2. Interpersonal con?ict. 3. Violence. 4. Social groups. 5.Group identity. 6. Social control. 7. Dominance (Psychology) I. Title. HM1121 .G68 2003 303.6—dc21 2003005699 oThe paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. [ CONTENTS ] Foreword by Peter Bearman ix Chapter 1 Con?ict, Honor, and Hierarchy 1 Chapter 2 Dominance Relations 27 Chapter 3 Strife out of Symmetry 67 Chapter 4 Solidarity and Group Con?ict 105 Chapter 5 Con?ict and Social Structure 147 Chapter 6 Honor and the Individual 167 References 183 Index 195 v For Erin [ FOREWORD ] Roger Gould died at age thirty-nine on April 29, 2002, after along battle with leukemia. Two weeks before his death he completed this manuscript and submitted it for publication. At submission, the manuscript was missing some elements typically associated with books: a preface, acknowledgments, and a dedication. Roger was a linear thinker who wrote ?uidly in >rst-draft mode. This is the case with this manuscript as well. Everything was completed except the part that sets the stage for the reader, describes the context of the book and the persons whose in?uences shaped the ideas, and identi>es, in retrospect, the scope conditions for the arguments made. For Roger these elements of a manuscript were less important for the review process, perhaps distracting, and often deployed by authors for instrumental reasons, signaling their prior achievements and academic lineage, perhaps to enhance the probability of favorable review. Consequently, he did not write this material. In this brief foreword, I describe the contexts in which this book was written, acknowledge those whose insti- tutional contributions helped shape the >nal production (as best as I can ascertain), describe the limited role I have taken as midwife for the manuscript, and consider some of the broader issues that this distinguished book raises. Readers may also note that the book does not have a “conclusion” chap- ix