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  • The Anthem Companion to Norbert Elias

    Edited by Stephen Mennell, Alex Law ...
    Series series Anthem Companions to Sociology
    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 ... Read more

    $71.49 CAD

  • Norbert Elias in Troubled Times

    Figurational Approaches to the Problems of the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Florence Delmotte, Barbara Górnicka ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias
    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 ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD

  • Excitement Processes

    Norbert Elias's unpublished works on sports, leisure, body, culture

    Edited by Jan Haut, Paddy Dolan, Dieter Reicher, Raúl Sánchez García ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The book focuses on major aspects of Norbert Elias's social theory through research on supposed “minor” topics, such as manners, sports, leisure and cultural practices. While many of his publications became essential for scholars in the different disciplines concerned, the development of the figurational approach towards these fields was not always completed. The edited volume picks up some lose ... Read more

    $102.49 CAD

  • Established-Outsiders Relations in Poland

    Reconfiguring Elias and Scotson

    Edited by Marta Bucholc ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias
    This book uses Norbert Elias and John L. Scotson’s The Established and The Outsiders to map selected established-outsiders figurations in Poland after 1989. Looking at gender and sexual orientation, nationalism and patriotism, race and class, antifeminism and homophobia, elitist and populist imaginaries, religious and political ideals and ideologies, hate speech, and the crisis of the rule of law, ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

  • Norbert Elias and Violence

    Edited by Tatiana Savoia Landini, François Dépelteau ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    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 ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Norbert Elias and Empirical Research

    Edited by T. Landini, F. Dépelteau ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Norbert Elias has been recognized as one of the key social scientists of the 20th century at least in sociology, political science and history. This book will address Norbert Elias's approach to empirical research, the use of his work in empirical research, and compare him with other theorists. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Violence and Civilization

    An Introduction to the Work of Norbert Elias

    by Jonathan Fletcher ...
    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 ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Norbert Elias

    Post-Philosophical Sociology

    by Richard Kilminster ...
    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 ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Norbert Elias

    by Robert Van Krieken ...
    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 ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Norbert Elias and the Sociology of Education

    by Dr Eric Lybeck ...
    Series series Social Theory and Methodology in Education Research
    This is the first book to apply the sociology of Norbert Elias to the field of sociology of education, offering fruitful lines of research developed from the application of Elias's theoretical framework. Beginning by introducing Elias' theory to those who are unfamiliar with it, Lybeck goes on to explore ways his work can be applied to areas of education research including widening participation, ... Read more

    $47.49 CAD

  • Norbert Elias and the Analysis of History and Sport

    Systematizing Figurational Sociology

    by Joannes Van Gestel ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    In times when the social sciences have become increasingly fragmented and more focused on ‘the pieces of the puzzle’, the puzzle, as a topic in its own right, has slowly been moved towards the background. Nonetheless, as humanity becomes ever more globalized, there is a greater need for in-depth discussion on the theory behind the direction of humanity in history and the interrelationships between ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Norbert Elias’s African Processes of Civilisation

    On the Formation of Survival Units in Ghana

    by Barbara Mennell, Stephen Mennell ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    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 ... Read more

    $89.69 CAD