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Randall Collins
Personal blog · sociological-eye.blogspot.comculturephilosophy
Randall Collins writes The Sociological Eye, a personal blog at sociological-eye.blogspot.com about culture and philosophy. Since 2015, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “How to Become Famous: The Networks of Lawrence of Arabia”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite Randall Collins's blog as support on how charisma relates to US presidential election wins, using election-by-election counts. The one comment links the post as evidence for its own point.
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Writings by the sociologist Randall Collins
Most-linked posts?
- How to Become Famous: The Networks of Lawrence of Arabia2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-28
What Hacker News says?
It surely helps and Trump exploited every opportunity, spared no effort to make sure he wins but charisma is generally not the path to the White House https://sociological-eye.blogspot.com/2016/11/does-charisma-... Overall, 6 of 29 modern elections were won by strongly charismatic leaders (Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, JFK); another 4 elections were won by well-liked but uncharismatic figures, Eisenhower and Reagan. About 8…
Comment linking /2016/11/does-charisma-win-presidential-elections.html
on “It's Charisma, Stupid (2004)”Submitted Interaction Rituals and the New Electronic Media (2011) as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Become Famous: The Networks of Lawrence of Arabia as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mona Lisa is no mystery for micro-sociology as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Star Wars is No Match for Today's Military Force as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Faces Around a Dictator: Kim Jong Un and Others as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Anti-Modern Modernism and Its Antidote: James Joyce and HART Crane's the Bridge as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five Kinds of Friends (2022) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Become Famous: The Social Networks of Lawrence of Arabia as a story · 1 points
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