orders are in charge of the organizational rituals." At the opposite end of the continuum, the "people who only take orders . . . are alienated from the official ideals in whose name they are ordered around. Lacking control of 'ritual property,' they withdraw from the 'frontstage' world and identify instead with the 'backstage' world of their informal groups" (Collins, 1985, pp. 158-159). People in "higher social classes have a culture that corresponds to a complex division of labor: abstract ideas, individualism, thinking in terms of long-term consequences" (Collins, 1985, p. 159). By contrast, people in the lower social classes experience "powerful pressure for social conformity" and "think in terms of particulars rather than abstractions" (Collins, 1985, p. 159). These social factors help shape the emotions of the people affected by them.
Collins (1985, p. 171) contended that interactionist ritual chains "show how microinteractions add up to the larger class
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