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Society of Individuals

Norbert Elias
Society of Individuals Book PDF

Author : Norbert Elias
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847142993

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Society of Individuals by Norbert Elias Pdf

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.

Norbert Elias and Social Theory

François Dépelteau,T. Landini
Norbert Elias and Social Theory Book PDF

Author : François Dépelteau,T. Landini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781137312112

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Norbert Elias and Social Theory by François Dépelteau,T. Landini Pdf

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.

The Sociology of Norbert Elias

Steven Loyal,Stephen Quilley
The Sociology of Norbert Elias Book PDF

Author : Steven Loyal,Stephen Quilley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521535093

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The Sociology of Norbert Elias by Steven Loyal,Stephen Quilley Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the key aspects of Norbert Elias's work.

Norbert Elias in Troubled Times

Florence Delmotte,Barbara Górnicka
Norbert Elias in Troubled Times Book PDF

Author : Florence Delmotte,Barbara Górnicka
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030749934

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Norbert Elias in Troubled Times by Florence Delmotte,Barbara Górnicka Pdf

This edited collection brings together texts that discuss current major issues in our troubled times through the lens of Norbert Elias’s sociology. It sheds light on both the contemporary world and some of Elias’s most controversial concepts. Through examination of the ‘current affairs’, political and social contemporary changes, the authors in this collection present new and challenging ways of understanding these social processes and figurations. Ultimately, the objective of the book is to embrace and utilise some of the more polemical aspects of Elias’s legacy, such as the exploration of decivilizing processes, decivilizing spurts, and dys-civilization. It investigates to what extent Elias’s sociological analyses are still applicable in our studies of the developments that mark our troubled times. It does so through both global and local lenses, theoretically and empirically, and above all, by connecting past, present, and possible futures of all human societies.

On Civilization, Power, and Knowledge

Norbert Elias
On Civilization Power and Knowledge Book PDF

Author : Norbert Elias
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226204321

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On Civilization, Power, and Knowledge by Norbert Elias Pdf

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.

Violence and Civilization

Jonathan Fletcher
Violence and Civilization Book PDF

Author : Jonathan Fletcher
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745666280

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Violence and Civilization by Jonathan Fletcher Pdf

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.

Norbert Elias

Robert Van Krieken
Norbert Elias Book PDF

Author : Robert Van Krieken
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134848850

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Norbert Elias by Robert Van Krieken Pdf

This book locates Elias's work clearly within the development of sociology and also against the background of current debates. Between the 1930s and the 1980s he developed a unique approach to social theory which is now beginning to take root in contemporary social research and theory. Since the translation of his work into English began to accelerate in the 1980s, a growing number of books and articles on topics including health, sexuality, crime, national and ethnic identity, femininity and globalization, in a variety of disciplines, make positive reference to Elias as an authority on the history of emotions, identity, violence, the body and state formation.

Norbert Elias

Richard Kilminster
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Author : Richard Kilminster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134075294

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Norbert Elias by Richard Kilminster Pdf

Few sociologists of the first rank have scandalised the academic world to the extent that Elias did. Developed out of the German sociology of knowledge in the 1920s, Elias’s sociology contains a sweeping radicalism which declares an academic ‘war on all your houses’. His sociology of the ‘human condition’ sweeps aside the contemporary focus on ‘modernity’ and rejects most of the paradigms of sociology as one-sided, economistic, teleological, individualistic and/or rationalistic. As sociologists, Elias also asks us to distance ourselves from mainstream psychology, history and above all, philosophy, which is summarily abandoned, although carried forward on a higher level. This enlightening book written by a close friend and pupil of Elias, is the first book to explain the refractory, uncomfortable, side of Elias’s sociological radicalism and to brace us for its implications. It is also the first in-depth analysis of Elias’s last work The Symbol Theory in the light of selected contemporary developments in archaeology, anthropology and evolutionary theory.

The Civilizing Process

Norbert Elias
The Civilizing Process Book PDF

Author : Norbert Elias
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0631221611

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The Civilizing Process by Norbert Elias Pdf

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.

Loneliness of the Dying

Norbert Elias
Loneliness of the Dying Book PDF

Author : Norbert Elias
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847141217

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Loneliness of the Dying by Norbert Elias Pdf

Originally published in 1985, this is a short meditation by a great old man on people relating to other people who are dying, and the need for all of us to open up.

The Court Society

Norbert Elias
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Author : Norbert Elias
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 0394716043

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The Court Society by Norbert Elias Pdf

A discussion of techniques used by rulers to assert leadership and social control includes a comparison of the regimes of Louis XIV in France and Adolf Hitler in Germany

Norbert Elias and Violence

Tatiana Savoia Landini,François Dépelteau
Norbert Elias and Violence Book PDF

Author : Tatiana Savoia Landini,François Dépelteau
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137561183

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Norbert Elias and Violence by Tatiana Savoia Landini,François Dépelteau Pdf

This book presents key conceptualizations of violence as developed by Norbert Elias. The authors explain and exemplify these concepts by analyzing Elias’s late texts, comparing his views to those of Sigmund Freud, and by analyzing the work of filmmaker Michael Haneke. The authors then discuss the strengths and shortcomings of Elias’s thoughts on violence by examining various social processes such as colonization, imperialism, and the Brazilian civilizing process—in addition to the ambivalence of state violence. The final chapters suggest how these concepts can be used to explain difficulties in implementing democracy, grappling with memories of violence, and state building after democracy.

The Anthem Companion to Norbert Elias

Stephen Mennell,Alex Law
The Anthem Companion to Norbert Elias Book PDF

Author : Stephen Mennell,Alex Law
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781839986666

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The Anthem Companion to Norbert Elias by Stephen Mennell,Alex Law Pdf

The book presents an authoritative assessment of Norbert Elias (1897–1990). It recognizes Elias as one of the major contributors to the development of sociological tradition in the past century and charts the continuing relevance of his conception of sociology for contemporary society. Only toward the end of his career as an academic did Elias’s work begin to attract the attention of English-speaking sociologists, historians, and scholars of cultural studies. The book provides an authoritative and broad representation of Elias’s oeuvre and work inspired by it. While Elias is best known for his major study of The Civilizing Process, the reach and subtle depths of Elias’s conception of process sociology has been cemented more recently by the English-language publication of Elias’s collected work of 18 volumes. The baton of process sociology is being passed on to further generations of sociologists. Chapters from leading contributors outline the nature of the sociological practice of Elias and address fundamental questions of historical sociology, democratization, gender, racialization processes, and embodiment. Later chapters highlight the contribution of process sociology for understanding developments in nation, state and global sociology, criminology, art, and education.

Norbert Elias's Lost Research

John Goodwin,Henrietta O'Connor
Norbert Elias s Lost Research Book PDF

Author : John Goodwin,Henrietta O'Connor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317086826

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Norbert Elias's Lost Research by John Goodwin,Henrietta O'Connor Pdf

Based on the re-discovery of a lost sociological project led by Norbert Elias at the University of Leicester, this book re-visits the project: The Adjustment of Young Workers to Work Situations and Adult Roles. Norbert Elias's Lost Research makes use of the interview booklets documenting the lives of nearly 900 Leicester school leavers at the time, to give a unique account of Elias's only foray into large-scale, publicly funded research. Covering all aspects of the research from the development of the research proposal, the selection and management of the research team, the fieldwork, Elias's theoretical work to the ultimate demise of the research project, this book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of existing Eliasian texts by introducing this project to a wider audience and investigating and applying Elias's theoretical work to the areas of youth and school to work transitions. Shedding new light on Elias's thought, whilst exploring questions of methodology and the relevance of older research to modern questions, this book will be of interest to social theorists, as well as sociologists with interests in research methodology and the history of sociology.

Norbert Elias’s African Processes of Civilisation

Dieter Reicher,Adrian Jitschin,Arjan Post,Behrouz Alikhani
Norbert Elias s African Processes of Civilisation Book PDF

Author : Dieter Reicher,Adrian Jitschin,Arjan Post,Behrouz Alikhani
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783658378493

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Norbert Elias’s African Processes of Civilisation by Dieter Reicher,Adrian Jitschin,Arjan Post,Behrouz Alikhani Pdf

In 1962 Norbert Elias was invited as a temporary professor at the University of Ghana in Legon, Accra. He taught, employed fieldwork, travelled, and met many people in postcolonial Africa. When Elias left Ghana in 1964, he had laid the basic groundwork for a fundamental sociological argument on human societies. The volume on hand is a selection of his unpublished writings based on these experiences. Together they touch upon not only the well-known criticism of Eurocentrism and a developmental perspective but also what could be considered the core of Elias’s work: the concept of civilisation. In a foreword, Dieter Reicher and Adrian Jitschin have endeavoured to explain and break down the relations of Elias’s African experience to the rest of his work and biography. They also clarified some misleading interpretations of Elias’s time in Africa. Finally, Arjan Post has uncovered the previously unknown fascinating story of Elias’ encounter with Malcolm X in an epilogue.