Norbert Elias and Modern Social TheorySAGE Publications, 2001 M05 1 - 208 pages 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. |
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Artists and Surveyors | 6 |
The Canonization of Elias | 13 |
Culture and civilization | 20 |
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American analysis argument aspects became behaviour bourgeoisie Breslau central challenge chapter character structure civilized habitus Civilizing Process concept convergence Court Society creative culture decivilizing dynamics early Elias and Arendt Elias and Foucault Elias argues Elias's Eliasian emotional Europe European Union example existence experience expressed fact feelings figurations Foucault 1988a Foucault and Elias France French German Empire German society global Hannah Arendt human humiliation idealistic ideas imperial important individual influence institutions integration intellectual interdependence interests Jewish Jews knowledge late medieval Michel Foucault modernity moral Nazi Norbert Elias Origins of Totalitarianism Panopticon Parsons's pattern perceptions phase philosophical political possible postmodern power monopolies practices regime relationships sense sexual shame shape situation Social Action social processes sociogenesis sociologists sociology specific strategy Structure of Social Talcott Parsons tendency tensions theory of action tradition understanding victims violence vision voluntaristic voluntaristic theory wanted writes Zygmunt Bauman