The Civilizing Process

Author : Norbert Elias
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631221616
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Civilizing Process written by Norbert Elias and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2000-07-13 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civilizing Process stands out as Norbert Elias' greatest work, tracing the "civilizing" of manners and personality in Western Europe since the late Middle Ages by demonstrating how the formation of states and the monopolization of power within them changed Western society forever.

Author : Stephen Mennell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745655386
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Civilizing Process written by Stephen Mennell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-24 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 9/11, the American government has presumed to speak and act in the name of ‘civilization’. But isthat how the rest of the world sees it? And if not, why not? Stephen Mennell leads up to such contemporary questions through a careful study of the whole span of American development, from the first settlers to the American Empire. He takes a novel approach, analysing the USA’s experience in the light of Norbert Elias’s theory of civilizing (and decivilizing) processes. Drawing comparisons between the USA and other countries of the world, the topics discussed include: American manners and lifestyles Violence in American society The impact of markets on American social character American expansion, from the frontier to empire The ‘curse of the American Dream’ and increasing inequality The religiosity of American life Mennell shows how the long-term experience of Americans has been of growing more and more powerful in relation to their neighbours. This has had all-pervasive effects on the way they see themselves, their perception of the rest of the world, and how the rest of the world sees them. Mennell’s compelling and provocative account will appeal to anyone concerned about America's role in the world today, including students and scholars of American politics and society.

Author : Norbert Elias
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226204324
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Civilization, Power, and Knowledge written by Norbert Elias and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-02-17 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norbert Elias has been described as among the great sociologists of the 20th century. A collection of his most important writings, this book sets out Elias' thinking during the course of his long career, with a discussion of how his work relates to that of other sociologists.

Author : François Dépelteau
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137312114
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Norbert Elias and Social Theory written by François Dépelteau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will compare the approach and works of Norbert Elias, well known for his analysis of the civilizing process, his work on sport and violence and, more largely, his figurational approach, with other important social theories both classical and contemporary.

Author : Linklater, Andrew
Publisher : Bristol University Press
ISBN 13 : 1529213916
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Idea of Civilization and the Making of the Global Order written by Linklater, Andrew and published by Bristol University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of civilization recurs frequently in reflections on international politics. However, International Relations academic writings on civilization have failed to acknowledge the major 20th-century analysis that examined the processes through which Europeans came to regard themselves as uniquely civilized – Norbert Elias’s On the Process of Civilization. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the significance of Elias’s reflections on civilization for International Relations. It explains the working principles of an Eliasian, or process-sociological, approach to civilization and the global order and demonstrates how the interdependencies between state-formation, colonialism and an emergent international society shaped the European 'civilizing process'.

Author : Patrick Jory
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108491243
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand written by Patrick Jory and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative new social history of Thailand told through the lens of changing ideals of manners, civility and behaviour.

Author : Norbert Elias
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1847142990
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Society of Individuals written by Norbert Elias and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-10-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1991 and now reissued by Continuum International, this book consists of three sections. The first, written in 1939, was either left out of Elias's most famous book, The Civilizing Process, or was written along with it. Part 2 was written between 1940 and 1960. Part 3 is from 1987. The entire book is a study of the unique relationship between the individual and society--Elias's best-known theme and the basis for the discipline of sociology.

Author : Bruce Fleming
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000567540
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Civilizing Process and the Past We Now Abhor written by Bruce Fleming and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the thought of Norbert Elias and using as a thread a purposely apolitical example of cruelty to animals to focus on changes in attitudes, this book explores the ways in which we deal with a past that we now abhor. As we struggle to deal with the fact that our past shapes us—indeed is us, but is not us—and cannot be changed, the modern tendency is to demand merely cosmetic rather than real changes to the world and to judge harshly the individuals with whom the past is populated, pulling down statues or re-naming institutions. An examination of our modern colonialism of time rather than place, which refuses to consider or accept the fact that without our past, we wouldn’t be here at all, let alone in a position to judge, The Civilizing Process and the Past We Now Abhor will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, cultural studies, and literature with interests in contemporary questions of race, morality, and efforts to correct the wrongs of our past.

Author : Jonathan Fletcher
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745666280
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence and Civilization written by Jonathan Fletcher and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to the work of Norbert Elias. It is the first systematic appraisal of two central themes of his thought - violence and civilization. Although Elias is best known for his theory of civilizing processes, this study highlights the crucial importance of the concept of decivilizing processes. Fletcher argues that while Elias did not develop a theory of decivilizing processes, such a theory is logically implied in his perspective and is highly pertinent to an understanding of the most violent episodes of twentieth-century history, such as the Nazi genocides. Elias's original synthesis of sociology and psychology is examined through an analysis of several key texts including The Civilizing Process, The Established and the Outsiders and The Germans. Fletcher shows how Elias constructs his "figurational models" and applies these comparatively to specific historical examples drawn from England and Germany. Violence and Civilization is an excellent introduction to Elias's work. It will appeal to students of sociology, anthropology, and history interested in understanding the phenomenon of violence in the modern world.

Author : Thomas Salumets
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773569286
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Norbert Elias and Human Interdependencies written by Thomas Salumets and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2001-08-27 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the opposing paradigms of globalization and fragmentation compete in often bloody and destructive ways in the world today, this book convincingly reminds us of the importance of finding out more about the complex and changing ways in which we are connected. The authors demonstrate that the more we understand our connectedness and deal with its consequences, the less dependent and helpless we become. The critical, multidisciplinary perspectives they offer cover a wide range of subjects, from the world wide web to medieval poetry, nations and gender, cancer narratives and money, emotion management and the financial markets, and the American civilizing process and the repression of shame. The contributions bear witness to Elias's innovative achievements while the authors continue his stunning explorations, extending them into other areas of the humanities and the sciences, and presenting their own wide-ranging and penetrating insights into our mutual dependence. Contributors are Jorge Arditi (SUNY-Buffalo), Godfried Van Benthem Van Den Bergh (emeritus, Erasmus University, Rotterdam), Reinhard Blomert (Humboldt University, Germany and Karl-Franzens University, Austria), Stephen Guy-Bray (University of Calgary), Thomas M. Kemple (University of British Columbia), Hermann Korte (emeritus, University of Hamburg, Germany), Helmut Kuzmics (University of Graz, Austria), Stephen Mennell (National University of Ireland), Thomas Salumets, Thomas J. Scheff (emeritus, University of California in Santa Barbara), Ulrich C. Teucher (University of British Columbia), Annette Treibel (Pedagogical University of Karlsruhe), and Cas Wouters (Utrecht University, Netherlands).