基本説明
These four volumes provide a comprehensive and penetrating survey of Elias's life and work. The collection also explores the various critiques of Elias's `figurational' or `process' sociology and counter-critiques by Elias's followers.
Full Description
Norbert Elias (1897-1990) is now widely regarded as one of the greatest sociologists of the 20th century. The challenge and profundity of his work are still being assimilated. Some have suggested that in time, he will be regarded as the Copernicus or Darwin of sociology, the man who set the subject on its scientific course.
These four volumes provide a comprehensive and penetrating survey of Elias's life and work. They pinpoint the main fields of research which Elias and his followers have explored: the civilizing process; state-formation; knowledge, religion and science; informalization; power; established-outsider figurations in fields such as class, gender and race; the sociology of the body; the sociology of the emotions; the sociology of leisure, sport and the arts; the sociology of the professions; medicine and psychoanalysis; crime and punishment; drug use and abuse. The collection also explores the various critiques of Elias's `figurational' or `process' sociology and counter-critiques by Elias's followers.
The volumes successfully locate the work of Elias and his followers in the context of modern sociology, especially in relation to writers such as Mannheim, Adorno, Parsons, Goffman, Foucault and Bourdieu. In the penetrating, original and informative Introduction, Eric Dunning and Stephen Mennell elucidate Elias's sociological contributions and the bearing his life experiences had on his work. The collection is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the sociological contribution of Norbert Elias.
The collection is organized in the following 4 volumes:
Volume 1
Focuses on Elias's work in the context of his life and career, and reviews his place in the contemporary social sciences, especially in relation to such figures as Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu. Also discussed in this volume are Elias's pathbreaking contributions to such issues as: the 'agency-structure' dilemma; habitus; power; involvement and detachment; knowledge and the sciences; time; and the relations between history and sociology.
Volume 2
Addresses Elias's major empiricallybased contributions to sociological theory, especially the theories of the civilizing process, state formation and established-outsider figurations. Also discussed are informalization and de-civilizing processes, and the applications of the established-outsider theory to such fields as race, gender and sexuality.
Volume 3
Examines figurational contributions to special areas of sociology such as: the sociology of the body; the sociology of the emotions; the sociology of everyday life, sport, leisure, lifestyles, taste, music and the arts; deviance and crime; the sociology of health and illness; psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and psychology; death and dying; and drugs and tobacco use.
Volume 4
Focuses on criticisms of Elias's work and the responses of Elias and his sociological followers. Key themes are: civilization and the Holocaust; sports violence, especially soccer hooliganism; the meanings and value of concepts like 'development', 'evolution' and 'change'; and the relative merits of long-term and short-term approaches. The end of the volume returns to the issue of Elias's place in contemporary sociology and the growing worldwide recognition of the significance of his contribution.
Eric Dunning is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leicester; Stephen Mennell is Professor of Sociology, University College Dublin
Contents
PART ONE: SITUATING ELIAS
Encounter with Norbert Elias - Eric R Wolf
Die Harte Arbeit des Kerativen Prozesses - Michael Schroter
Erfahrugen mit Norbert Elias
The `Young Workers Project' Renewed - John Goodwin and Henrietta O'Connor
Elias and the Frankfurt School - Artur Bogner
Comments on Elias's Scenes from the Life of a Knight - Eric Dunning
Zum Hintergrund der Zivilisationstheorie von Norbert Elias - Johan Goudsblom
Ihr Verhaltnis zu Huizinga, Weber und Freud
Norbert Elias and American Sociology - Johan Goudsblom
Norbert Elias and Karl Mannheim - Richard Kilminster
The Organization of the Soul - Robert van Krieken
Elias and Foucault on Discipline and the Self
Embarrassment and Civilization - Helmut Kuzmics
On Some Similarities and Differences in the Work of Goffman and Elias
Parson and Elias - Stephen Mennell
PART TWO: GENERAL THEORETICAL-EMPIRICAL ORIENTATIONS
The Structure of Social Processes - Artur Bogner
A Commentary on the Sociology of Norbert Elias
In Defence of Developmental Sociology - Eric Dunning
A Critique of Popper's Poverty of Historicism with Special Reference to the Theory of Auguste Comte
Social Figuation and Habitus - Roger Chariter
Reading Elias
PART THREE: THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE SCIENCES
On the Relationship between Literature and Sociology in the Work of Norbert Elias - Helmut Kuzmics
Norbert Elias's Sociology of Knowledge and Its Significance for the Study of the Sciences - Nico Wilterdink
The Worm and the Clock - Johan Goudsblom
On the Genesis of a Global Time Regime
PART FOUR: LONG-TERM PROCESSES
CIVILIZING, DECIVILIZING AND DYSCIVILIZING PROCESSES
Violence in the British Civilizing Process - Eric Dunning, Patrick Murphy and Ivan Waddington
Einige Soziale Wandlungen des Schlafers - Peter R Gleichmann
Review of Johan Goudsblom Fire and Civilisation - Eric Dunning
Decivilizing Processes - Godfried van Benthem van den Bergh
Civilization and Organized Violence in the Ottoman Empire - Elcin Kursat-Ahlers
Decivilizing Processes - Stephen Mennell
Theoretical Significances and Some Lines for Research
Asia and Europe - Stephen Mennell
Comparing Civilizing Processes
The American Civilizing Process - Stephen Mennell
Dyscivilization, Mass Extermination and the State - Abram de Swaan
Compassion and Cruelty in Modern Society - Nathan Sznaider
Civilisering en Decivilisering - Ton Zwaan
Studies over Staatsvorming en Geweld
STATE-FORMATION PROCESSES
Is a Marxist Theory of the State Possible? - Gotfried van Benthem van den Bergh
The Mafia of a Sicilian Village, 1860-1960 - Anton Blok
European Intergration and Norbert Elias's Sociology - Paul Kapteyn
The Second Pillar of State Power - Reinhard Blomert
Figurational Explorations of the State and Money
Elias in Japan - Johann Arnason
State Power, Military Elites and Organized Violence
INFORMATION PROCESSES
On Modern Relationships - Christien Brinkgreve
The Commandments of the New Freedom
Feelings, Behaviour and Morals in The Netherlands, 1938-78 - Christien Brinkgreve
Analysis and Interpretation of an Advice Column
Informationization and the Civilizing Process - Cas Wouter
Social Stratification and Informalization in Global Prespective - Cas Wouter
PART FIVE: ESTABLISHED-OUTSIDER FIGURATIONS/ COMMUNITIES
CLASS, ETHNICITY AND `RACE'
Power and Authority in the Public Schools - Eric Dunning
A Case Study and Conceptual Discussion
Die Etablierten Deutschen und ihre Auslandischen Ausenseiter - Hermann Korte
The Formation of We-Images - Stephen Mennell
A Process Theory
The Figurational Dynamics of Racial Stratification - Eric Dunning
A Conceptual Discussion and Developmental Analysis of Black-White Relations in the United States
GENDER
The Changing Balance of Power between Men and Women - Annette Treibel
A Figurational Study of the Public and Private Spheres in Western Societies
Marriage - Michael Schroter
Power Changes and Self-Respect - A van Stolk and Cas Wouter
A Comparison of Two Cases of Established - Outsider Relations
The Politics of Agoraphobia - Abram de Swaan
PART SIX: CONTRIBUTIONS TO `SPECIAL' SOCIOLOGIES
SOCIOLOGY OF THE BODY AND EMOTIONS
On Civilizing of Appetite - Stephen Mennell
Towards a Sociological Theory of Sport and the Emotions - Joseph Maguire
A Process-Sociological Perspective
Balancing Sex and Love since the 1960s Sexual Revolution - Cas Wouter
The Quest for New Rituals in Dying and Mourning - Cas Wouter
Changes in the We-I Balance
LEISURE, SPORT AND THE ARTS
Towards a Sociological Understanding of Football Hooliganism as a World Phenomenon - Eric Dunning
On Fox-Hunting and Angling - Adrian Franklin
Norbert Elias and the `Sportization' Process
Aspects of Boxing in the Western `Civilizing Process' - Ken Sheard
The Pleasure of the Rich Is the Labour of the Poor - Keith Tester
Some Comments on Norbert Elias's An Essay on Sport and Violence
Sociological Reflections on Sport, Violence and Civilization - Eric Dunning
Globalization and Sportization - Joseph Maguire
A Figurational/Process-Sociological Perspective
Cricket and Civilizing Processes - Dominic Malcolm
Painting, Power and Patronage - Bram Kempers
A Sociological Approach to Art History
SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION
Religious Regimes and State Formation - Mart Bax
Towards a Research Perspective
Beschaving en Godsdienst - Johan Goudsblom
Over de Plaats van de religie in Norbert Elias's Civilisation Theory
PROFESSIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS
Sociogenese de la Profession Politique - Eric Phelippeau
Applying an Eliasian Approach to Organizational Analysis - Sue Dopson
Epilogue - Wilbert van Vree
Changing Meeting Behaviour as an Aspect of Civilizing Processes
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Norbert Elias and the Civilized Prison - John Pratt
Violence and the Civilizing Process - Pieter Spierenburg
Does it Work?
Changing Patterns of Social Controls and Self-Controls - Cas Wouter
On the Rise of Crime since the 1950s and the Sociogenesis of a `Third Nature'
MEDICNE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
Public Health and the Civilizing Process - Johan Goudsblom
Modern Medicine and the Civilizing Process - Patrice Pinell
The Sociogenesis of the Psychoanalytic Setting - Abram de Swaan
DRUGS, ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO USE
Review of Jan-Willem Gerritsen `The Control of Fuddle and Flash: A Sociological History of the Regulation of Alcohol and Opiates' - Johan Goudsblom
La Consommation de tabac dans le Processus de Civilisation - Jason Hughes
Drugs in Sport - Eric Dunning and Ivan Waddington
Some Neglected Issues
PART SEVEN: CRITIQUES AND COUNTER-CRITIQUES
Review of the 1939 edition of Uber den Prozess der Zivilisation - Raymond Aron
Review of the 1973 French edition of The Civilising Process - Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Review of The Established and the Outsider - W G Runciman
Civilizing Processes - Myth or Reality? - Johan Goudsblom and Stephen Mennell
The Civilizing Process Revisited - Daniel Gordon
Emmanuel Le Roy Laudrie, Daniel Gordon and The Second Death of Norbert Elias - Roger Chartier
Social Reality as Figuration - Derek Layder
A Critique of Elias's Conception of Sociological Analysis
`Agency' and `Structure' in the Work of Norbert Elias - Eric Dunning
Structuration Theory as a World View - Richard Kilminster
On Figurational Sociology - Nicos Mouzelis
Goldthorpe's View of Sociology - Eric Dunning
