Peter Enrique Kollock (November 1, 1959 – January 10, 2009) was an American sociologist and an associate professor and vice chair in the department of sociology at the

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Background

Kollock was born on November 1, 1959 in

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but came to the United States when he was a year old. He grew up in

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and attended Blanchet High School. Later, he received his B.A. in 1982, M.A in 1984, and Ph.D. in 1990 from the department of

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at the

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. He joined the department of sociology at

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in 1989 and stayed there throughout his entire career.Remembering Peter Kollock
''Social Psychology: Newsletter of the Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological Association'' Vol 13, No. 1, Spring 2009:3

Career

His research interests lay in "determining the basis of trust and cooperation in collective action." One aspect of this research explored

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and

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, arguing that cooperation is sustained by credit and relatively loose accounting systems. He was a practicing

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and taught the popular fiat lux seminar, “Zen and the Art of Mindfulness.”Long-time sociology professor dies at 49
/ref> Following a retreat at the

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, Kollock proposed a new undergraduate course, "The Sociology of Mindfulness," which became very popular.ASA Footnotes: Obituaries-Peter Kollock
/ref> He was also a motorcycle enthusiast.Peter Kollock Memorial Ride
Kollock died on 10 January 2009 in a motorcycle accident on

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near

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. According to Buddhist Monk Phap De, "Peter was a very skillful and careful motorcycle rider. He had just said good-bye to his wife, Ellen, and, apparently, was on his way from Calabasas to UCLA. According to the police, Peter, was hit by a powerful cross wind, causing him to hit the curb. His body was catapulted into a tree, killing him instantly." The ''Peter Kollock Memorial Ride'' was held on 14 January 2009, a 65-mile/two-hour route that ended at the UCLA campus in time for the memorial service. The department of sociology at UCLA now offers the ''Peter Kollock Memorial Teaching Award.''

Works

Book

* Smith, Marc, and Peter Kollock (editors). 1999.
Communities in Cyberspace
'' London: Routledge.

Selected papers

* Kollock, Peter, and Marc Smith. 1996

pp. 109–128 in Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, Social, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives, edited by Susan Herring. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. * Kollock, Peter. 1996

Harvard Conference on the Internet and Society. Also published in PC Update 15(5): 58-60. June 1998. * Kollock, Peter. 1998
"Annual Review of Sociology - Social Dilemmas: Anatomy of Cooperation"
* Kollock, Peter. 1999.

Advances in Group Processes (Vol. 16), edited by E. J. Lawler, M. Macy, S. Thye, and H. A. Walker. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. * Kollock, Peter, and Marc Smith. 1999

pp. 3–25 in Communities in Cyberspace, edited by Marc Smith and Peter Kollock. London: Routledge. * * Kollock, Peter, and E. Russell Braziel. 2006.
“How Not to Build an Online Market: The Sociology of Market Microstructure.”
Advances in Group Processes: Social Psychology of the Workplace, edited by S. R. Thye and E. J. Lawler. New York: Elsevier Science.

Presentations and videos

IFTF/Stanford University Humanities lab lecture by Kollock
- hosted by

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* - 2005 lecture for a Stanford seminar on "A new literacy of cooperation" - conducted by Andrea Saveri and Howard Rheingold.