SAGE MASTERS OF MODERN SOCIAL THOUGHT

NORBERT ELIAS

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EDITED BY

Erle Dunning &

Stephen Mennell

SAGE Publications London • Thousand Oaks • New Delhi

CONTENTS

Appendix of Sources Editors' Introduction

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PARTONE SITUATING EIJAS

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1. Encounter with Norbert Elias Eric R. Wolf 3 2. Die harte Arbeit des kreativen Prozesses: Erfahrungen mit

Norbert Elias Michael Schröter 1 l 3. The 'Young Workers Project' Renewed

John Goodwin & Henrietta O'Connor 39 4. Elias and the Frankfurt School Artur Bogner 43 5. Comments on Elias's 'Scenes from the Life of a Knight'

Eric Dunning 75 6. Zum Hintergrund der Zivilisationstheorie von Norbert Elias:

Das Verhältnis zu Huizinga, Weber und Freud ]ohan Goudsblom 81 7. Norbert Elias and American Sociology ]ohan Goudsblom 97 8. Norbert Elias and Karl Mannheim: Closeness and Distance

Richard Kilminster 105 9. The Organisation of the Soul: Elias and Foucault on Discipline

and the Self Robert Min Krieken 135 10. Embarrassment and Civilization: On Some Similarities and

Differences in the Work of Goffman and Elias Helmut Kuqnics 155 11. Parsons and Elias Stephen Mennell 181

PARTTWO GENERAL THEORETICAL-EMPIRICAL ORIENTATIONS

12. The Structure of Social Processes: A Commentary on the Sociology of Norbert Elias Artur Bogner 203

13. In Defense of Developmental Sociology: A Critique of Popper's Poverty of Historicism with Special Reference to the Theory of Auguste Comte Eric Dunning 233

14. Social Figuration and Habitus: Reading Elias Roger Chartier 257

PARTTHREE THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE SCIENCES

15. On the Relationship between Literature and Sociology in the Work of Norbert Elias Helmut Kuqnics 281

16. Norbert Elias's Sociology of Knowledge and its Significance for the Study of the Sciences N. A. Wilterdink 301

17. The Warm and the Clock: On the Genesis of a Global Time Regime ]ohan Goudshlom 317

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PARTFOUR WNGTERM PROCESSES

Section One Civilising, Decivilising and Dyscivilising Processes

18. Violence in the British Civilizing Process Eric Dunning, Patrick Murphy & Ivan Waddington 5

19. Einige soziale Wandlungen des Schlafens Peter Reinhart Gleichmann 35

20. Review of Goudsblom's Fire and Civilk/ltion En·c Dunning 57 21. Decivilising Processes? Godftied van Benthem van den Bergh 65 22. Civilization and Organized Violence in the Ottoman Empire

E"lfin Kür§at-Ahlers 71 23. Decivilising Processes: Theoretical Significance and Same Lines

of Research Stephen Mennell 81 24. Asia and Europe: Comparing Civilizing Processes

Stephen Mennell 101 25. The American Civilizing Process Stephen Mennell 119 26. Dyscivilization, Mass Extermination and the State

Ahram de Swaan 137 27. Compassion and Cruelty in Modem Society: The Case of the

Holocaust Natan SZ}l.aider 149

28. On Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes: A Theoretical Discussion Ton Zwaan

Section 1\vo State-Formation Processes

29. Is a Marxist Theory of the State Possible?

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Godfried van Benthem van den Bergh 179 30. Two Scorpions in a Bottle: Tue Unintended Benefits of Nuclear

Weapons Godfried van Benthem van den Bergh 199 31. Tue Mafia of a Sicilian Village, 1860-1960 Anton Blok 209 32. European Integration and Norbert Elias's Sociology

Paul Kapteyn 219 33. Tue Second Pillar of State Power: Figurational Explorations of

the State and Money Reinhard Bwmert 223 34. Elias in Japan: State Power, Military Elitesand Organized

Violence Johann Amason 235

Section Three Informalisation Processes

35. On Modem Relationships: The Commandments of the New Freedom Ghristien Brinkgreve 251

36. Feelings, Behaviour, Morals in the Netherlands, 1938-1978: Analysis and Interpretation of an Advice Column G. Brinkgreve & M. Kor;;:tc 261

37. Informalisation and the Civilising Process Gas JfOuters 279 38. Social Stratification and lnformalization in Global Perspective

Gas JfOuters 295

PARTFIVE ESTABLISHED-OUTSIDER FIGURATIONS/COMMUNITIES

Section One aass, Ethnicity and 'Race'

39. Power and Authority in the Public Schools (1700- 1850): A Case Study and Conceptual Discussion Eric Dunning 319

40. Die etablierten Deutschen und ihre ausländischen Außenseiter Hermann Korte 351

41. Tue Formation of We-Images: A Process Theory Stephen Mennell 367 42. The Figurational Dynamics of Racial Stratification: A Conceptual

Discussion and Developmental Analysis of Black-White Relations in the United States Eric Dunning 387

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PARTFIVE ESTABLISHED-OUTSIDER FIGURATIONS/ COMMUNITIES

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Section Two Gen der

43. The Changing Balance of Power between Men and Women: A Figurational Study of the Public and the Private Spheres in Western Societies Annette Treibe[ 5

44. Marriage Michael Schröter 21 45. Power Changes and Self-Respect: A Comparison of Two Cases of

Established-Outsider Relations Bram van Stolk & Gas Wouters 27 46. Die Gemütsruhe des Wohlfahrtsstaates

Bram van Stolk & Gas Wouters 37 47. The Politics of Agoraphobia: On Changes in Emotional and

Relational Management Abram de Swaan 53

PARTSIX CONTRIBUTIONS TO 'SPECIAI.1 SOCIOLOGIES

Section One Sociology of the Body and Emotions

48. On the Civilizing of Appetite Stephen Mennell 83 49. Towards a Sociological Theory of Sport and the Emotions:

A Process-Sociological Perspective Joe Maguire 111 50. Balancing Sex and Love since the 1960s Sexual Revolution

Gas Wouters 133 51. The Quest for New Rituals in Dying and Mourning: Changes in

the We-1 Balance Gas Wouters 161

Section Two Leisure, Sport and the Arts

52. Towards a Sociological Understanding of Football Hooliganism as a World Phenomenon Eric Dunning 191

53. On Fox-hunting and Angling: Norbert Elias and the 'Sportisation' Process Adrian Franklin 213

54. Aspects of Boxing in the Western 'Civilizing Process' Kenneth G. Sheard 237

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The Pleasure of the Rich is the Labour of the Poor: Some Comments on Norbert Elias' "An Essay on Sport and Violence" Keith Tester Sociological Reflections on Sport, Violence and Civilization Eric Dunning Globalization and Sportization: A Figurational Process/ Sociological Perspective Joseph Maguire Cricket and Civilizing Processes: A Response to Stokvis Dominic Malcolm Painting, Power and Patronage Bram Kempers

Section Three Sociology of Religion

Religious Regimes and State Formation: Towards a Research Perspective MartBax Christian Religion and the European Civilizing Process: The Views of Norbert Elias and Max Weber compared in the Context of the Augustinian and Lucretian Traditions

Johan Goudshlom

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PARTSIX CONTRIBUTIONS TO 'SPECIAL' SOCIOLOGIES

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Section Four Professions and Organisations

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62. Sociogenese de la profession politique Eric Philippeau 5 63. Applying an Eliasian Approach to Organizational Analysis

Sue Dopson 27 64. Changing Meeting Behaviour as an Aspect of Civilizing Processes

Wilhert van Vree 47

Section Five Crime and Punishment

65. Norbert Elias and the Civilized Prison John Pratt 71

66. Violence and the Civilizing Process: Does it Work? Pieter Spierenburg 99

67. Changing Patterns of Social Controls and Self-Controls: On the Rise of Crime Since the 1950s and the Sociogenesis of a 'Third Nature' Gas J#>uters 119

Section Six Medicine and Psychoanalysis

68. Public Health and the Civilizing Process ]ohan Goudsblom 141 69. Modem Medicine and the Civilising Process Patrice Pinell 163 70. On the Sociogenesis of the Psychoanalytic Setting

Abram de Swaan 171

Section Seven Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco Use

71. Review ofjan-Willem Gerritsen, The Control ofFuddle and Flash ]ohan Goudsblom 203

72. From Panacea to Pandemie: Tobacco-Use in the West ]ason Hughes 205

73. Drugs in Sport: Some Neglected Issues Eric Dunning & Ivan Waddington 227

PARTSEVEN CRITIQUES AND COUNTER-CRITIQUES

74. Review of Über den ProQss der Zivilisation Raymond Aron 243 75. Trop polis pour etre honnetes Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie 245 76. What People Say W. G. Runciman 249 77. Civilizing Processes - Myth or Reality? A Comment on Duerr's

Critique of Elias Stephen Mennell & johan Goudsblom 253 78. The Civilizing Process Revisited Daniel Gordon 259 79. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Daniel Gordon, and 'The Second

Death of Norbert Elias' Roger Chartier 301 80. Social Reality as Figuration: A Critique of Elias's Conception of

Sociological Analysis' Derek Layder 305 81. 'Agency' and 'Structure' in the Work of Norbert Elias

Eric Dunning 327 82. Structuration Theory as a World-View Richards Kilminster 331 83. On Figurational Sociology Nicos MoUQlis 369 84. Goldthorpe's View of Sociology Eric Dunning 383