[PDF] Norbert Elias eBook

Author : Norbert Elias
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 31,58 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231045513

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What is Sociology? presents in concise and provocative form the major ideas of a seminal thinker whose work--spanning more than four decades--is only now gaining the recognition here it has long had in Germany and France. Unlike other post-war sociologists, Norbert Elias has always held the concept of historical development among his central concerns; his dynamic theories of the evolution of modern man have remedied the historical and epistemological shortcomings of structualism and ethno-methodology. What is Sociology? refines the arguments that were first found in Elias' massive work on the civilizing process, in which he formulated his major assertions about the interdependence of the making of modern man and modern society. It is Elias' contention that changes in personality structure--embodied in phenomena ranging from table manners and hygiene habits to rites of punishment and courtly love--inevitably reflect and mould patterns of control generated by new political and social instututions. Elias' rejection of a dichotomy between individual and society, and his use of psychoanalysis, political theory, and social history, help restore a fullness of resource to sociology.

Author : Norbert Elias
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 36,48 MB
Release : 1998-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226204324

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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 : Norbert Elias
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 35,42 MB
Release : 2001-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1847142990

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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 : Steven Loyal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 14,87 MB
Release : 2004-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521535090

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

Author : Robert Van Krieken
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 38,54 MB
Release : 2005-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134848854

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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.

Author : Jonathan Fletcher
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745666280

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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 : Norbert Elias
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 2000-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780631221616

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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 : Norbert Elias
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 14,61 MB
Release : 2001-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1847141218

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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.

Author : Norbert Elias
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 26,65 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 9780394716046

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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