Norbert Elias

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