Author: Mennell, Stephen.
Title: Norbert Elias: An Introduction.
Description: Oxford Blackwell Publishers, 1992. 1st p/b ed. Paperback octavo, as new condition. 339 pp. Norbert Elias's book "The Civilizing Process" is one of the top ten works of sociology in the 20th century. Reports on this masterwork, his other writings, and his influence on the field of sociology. A thoughtful intellectual portrait of Elias. His "Civilizing Process" traces the civilizing of manners and personality in Western Europe since the late Middle Ages, and shows how it was related to the formation of states and the control of violence. His later writings range from sport to human relations, through to the changing relations between men and women to time, and the growth of knowledge and the sciences. ISBN: 0631182640

Keywords: biography, society, sociology, sociologists, social theory, civilisation, civilization, philosophy, europe, germany 0631182640


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