Norbert Elias And Modern Social Theory
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Norbert Elias And Modern Social Theory
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Author : Dennis Smith
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2001-01-26
Norbert Elias And Modern Social Theory written by Dennis Smith and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-26 with Social Science categories.
Offering a fascinating survey of Elias's life and writings, Dennis Smith traces the growth of his reputation. He is the first author to confront Elias's work with the contrasting theories of Talcott Parsons, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault and Zygmunt Bauman. He also illustrates how Elias's insights can be applied to understand Western modernity and social and political change. Smith shows why Elias is important for sociology, but he is also clear sighted about the limitations of Elias's approach.
Norbert Elias And Modern Sociology
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Author : Eric Dunning
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-01-31
Norbert Elias And Modern Sociology written by Eric Dunning and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-31 with Social Science categories.
This book endeavours to bring the sociology of Elias to a new and wider audience through offering accessible explanations of some of his key ideas.
Norbert Elias
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Author : Richard Kilminster
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-11-13
Norbert Elias written by Richard Kilminster and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-13 with Social Science categories.
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.
Explaining Modern Social Reality
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Author : Kire Sharlamanov
language : en
Publisher: Central European University Press
Release Date : 2023-10-15
Explaining Modern Social Reality written by Kire Sharlamanov and has been published by Central European University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-15 with Social Science categories.
Few thinkers have contributed more to the understanding of modern civilization than Norbert Elias. Given the significance and relevance of his ideas in explaining social reality, this book seeks to make his complex concepts more accessible. A biographical account of his life (1897-1990) facilitates the comprehension of Elias's concepts. Elias's most famous work, "The Civilizing Process", is the focus of this discussion of his theoretical frameworks, with class structure, the patterns of behavior, and the role of the state as key factors. The book also dedicates special treatment to figurational sociology, an important research field linked best to Elias's output. Elias was an innovator. He criticized accepted concepts and introduced numerous new constructs (habitus is perhaps the best known) discussed in this book. Respective chapters review Elias's theory of knowledge, the concept of de-civilization—with an emphasis on violence, his analysis of nations and nationalism, and emotions—and his focus on shame. Elias borrowed ideas from iconic figures in philosophy and the social sciences such as Edmund Husserl, Karl Mannheim, Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, and Talcott Parsons. This book describes the characteristic way Elias interprets them. The book concludes with an overview of the most significant critiques of Norbert Elias's work.
Norbert Elias And Social Theory
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Author : François Dépelteau
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-11-18
Norbert Elias And Social Theory written by François Dépelteau and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-18 with Sports & Recreation categories.
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.
Norbert Elias
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Author : Robert Van Krieken
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-07-25
Norbert Elias written by Robert Van Krieken and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-25 with Social Science categories.
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.
Bauman Elias And Latour On Modernity And Its Alternatives
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Author : Sandro Segre
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2020-03-31
Bauman Elias And Latour On Modernity And Its Alternatives written by Sandro Segre and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-31 with Social Science categories.
‘Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives’ provides a comparison between the conceptions of modernity and its alternatives in the works of Bauman, Elias and Latour. Their work and research are linked to their distinct views on modernity and its alternatives. For Bauman, the rationality, effectiveness and impersonality that characterize present-day bureaucratic apparatuses are the distinguishing features of modernity. Its post-modern or ‘liquid’ alternative has none of these traits. For Elias, modernity has two different and contrasting faces, that of civilization and barbarity. Elias conceives of civilization as a process connoted by self-control and pacification, which prevail as a consequence of the restraint which honor and morality exert on individuals. By contrast, the breakdown of civilization involves barbarity. For Latour, modernity if defined by a separation between society and nature, or humans and non-humans, has never existed. By virtue of their intimate association, humans and non-humans have formed hybrids, whose proliferation is the hallmark of our age. Modernity, therefore, has never prevailed. Alternatives to hybrids are, in the current age, failed hybrids. The set of alternatives is then as follows: modernity vs. post-modernity (Bauman); civilization vs. barbarity (Elias); and successful vs. unsuccessful hybrids (Latour).
What Is Sociology
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Author : Norbert Elias
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 1978
What Is Sociology written by Norbert Elias and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Social Science categories.
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.
The Sociology Of Norbert Elias
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Author : Steven Loyal
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-03-18
The Sociology Of Norbert Elias written by Steven Loyal and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-18 with Social Science categories.
This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the key aspects of Norbert Elias's work.
Anthony Giddens And Modern Social Theory
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Author : Kenneth Tucker
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 1998-09-28
Anthony Giddens And Modern Social Theory written by Kenneth Tucker and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09-28 with Social Science categories.
Anthony Giddens is widely recognized as one of the most important sociologists of the post-war period. This is the first full-length work to examine Giddens' social theory. It guides the reader through Giddens' early attempt to overcome the duality of structure and agency. He saw this duality as a major failing of social theories of modernity. His attempt to resolve the problem can be regarded as the key to the development of his brandmark `structuration theory'. The book is the most complete and thorough assessment of Giddens' work currently available. It incorporates insights from many different perspectives into his theory of structuration, his work on the formation of cultural identities and the fate of the nation-state. This fa