Norbert Elias and Social Theory

Norbert Elias and Social Theory
Author: François Dépelteau
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2013-11-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781137312105

Norbert Elias has been recognized as one of the key social scientists of the twentieth century. The contributions collected in Norbert Elias and Social Theory discuss the specificities, the strengths, and the limits of Elias's sociology by considering its similarities and its differences with other important classical (Epicure, Freud, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and Simmel) and contemporary (Manheim, Fromm, Arendt, Bauman, and Bourdieu) social theories. Editors François Dépelteau and Tatiana Savoia Landini have compiled an essential and comprehensive volume on a quintessential thinker.

What is Sociology?

What is Sociology?
Author: Norbert Elias
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1978
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780231045513

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.

Norbert Elias and Social Theory

Norbert Elias and Social Theory
Author: François Dépelteau
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2013-11-18
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1137312114

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 and Modern Social Theory

Norbert Elias and Modern Social Theory
Author: Dennis Smith
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2001-01-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780761961086

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

Norbert Elias
Author: Richard Kilminster
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2007-11-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134075294

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.

The Sociology of Norbert Elias

The Sociology of Norbert Elias
Author: Steven Loyal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2004-03-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780521535090

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

The Established and the Outsiders

The Established and the Outsiders
Author: Norbert Elias
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780803979499

This new edition of this classic text from one of the major figures of world sociology includes an introduction published in English for the first time. In Norbert Elias's hands, a local community study of tense relations between an established group and outsiders becomes a microcosm that illuminates a wide range of sociological configurations including racial, ethnic, class and gender relations. The Established and the Outsiders examines the mechanisms of stigmatization, taboo and gossip, monopolization of power, collective fantasy and `we' and `they' images which support and reinforce divisions in society. Developing aspects of Elias's thinking that relate his work to current sociological concerns, it presents the

Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology

Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology
Author: Eric Dunning
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2013-01-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 178093226X

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.

Social Theory

Social Theory
Author: Peter Beilharz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2020-07-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000247287

'An alluvial goldfield of social theorists - nuggets lying around all over the place.' Bob Connell Who's who in the social theory zoo? This book introduces some of the leading social theorists in short, lively entries by leading Australian scholars. Social Theory covers thinkers from Althusser to Williams, by locals from Alexander to Yeatman. For beginner and enthusiast alike, it gives a sense of the state of the art in classical and modern social theory. Social Theory is an indispensable reference for undergraduates, postgraduates, academics and anyone else interested in the ideas behind social and political theory and cultural studies today.