First published in German in 1989, exactly 50 years after the author's most famous work, On the Process of Civilisation,...
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A translation that contains Norbert Elias' broadest statement of the fundamentals of sociology, in important respects very different from the...
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Beginning with the author's celebrated study of the changing standards of behaviour of the secular upper classes in Western Europe...
After the Irish War of Independence and Civil War, the journal Studies hosted the mainstream social, economic, constitutional and political...
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Situates the human capacity for forming symbols in the long-term biological evolution of Homo sapiens, showing how it is linked...
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Why do some people become more religiously conservative over time, whilst others moderate their views or abandon faith altogether? Drawing...
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Demonstrates that individualisation is an inherent component of the personal socialisation process and of inter-generational civilising processes, exploding the myth...
Presents the study of the everyday civic and social relations that are observed in suburban localities, in this case in...
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Like his father Leopold, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was dependent on a court aristocracy in whose eyes he was little more...
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Contains two shorter books - "The Loneliness of the Dying", which discusses the changing social context of death and dying...
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Examines the relationship between Protestants and Catholics and the notion that southern Protestants are somehow not really Irish. From interviews...
Intends to document a selected yet systematic set of views on Ireland as 'Other' during the nineteenth century. This title...
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Between the end of the Second World War and his death in 1990, Elias published almost 60 articles on a...
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Gaelic sports have been played for over a century in America, and provide a window into the lives and culture...
After WWII the Irish state maintained the high industrial tariffs of the 1930s, despite the inefficiency of its protected industries....
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Contains 28 essays some of which directly express Elias' dissatisfaction with the ahistorical, present-centred trend of modern sociology. This book...
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Presents themes that represent major extensions of and reflections upon the ideas first advanced in "The Civilizing Process". This title...
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Argues that in highly constrained, 'civilised' societies, sports - as well as a spectrum of other cultural and leisure activities...