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The Civilizing Process

Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations

Norbert Elias author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

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The Civilizing Process stands out as Norbert Elias' greatest work, tracing the "civilizing" of manners and personality in Western Europe since the late Middle Ages by demonstrating how the formation of states and the monopolization of power within them changed Western society forever.

"Without doubt the most important piece of historical sociology since Max Weber." Richard Sennett, London School of Economics.

"A modern classic of the first order." Lewis Coser.

"Elias has all the boldness and sureness of touch of the old masters, of whom he is perhaps the last. Reading his pages one again and again makes the mental note that this or that point is worthy of a Max Weber ... One realises from a book like this that serious sociology must remain dependent on the insightful interpretation of history of just the kind that Elias provides." Bryan Wilson.

"The most remarkable recent attempt to contain the social and the individual within a unified scheme of sociological analysis." Philip Abrams

"The Civilizing Process is remarkable: eclectic, insightful and constantly surprising." Times Higher Education Supplement

ISBN: 9780631221616

Dimensions: 226mm x 152mm x 31mm

Weight: 862g

592 pages

2nd edition