Norbert Elias and Psychoanalysis: The Historical Sociology of Emotions

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Robert van Krieken
Keyword(s):  
Historical Sociology ◽  
Sociology Of Emotions ◽  
Norbert Elias

Public Spaces, Knowledge, and Sociability

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Cowan
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Georg Simmel ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Norbert Elias ◽  
The Social ◽  
German Philosopher ◽  
History Of ◽  
German Sociologist

The concept of sociability was introduced as an analytic term by the German sociologist Georg Simmel. Sociability has figured prominently in recent histories of consumer society and material cultures. It has become increasingly clear to historians and social theorists that the places where consumption took place, or where consumer desires were stimulated, and the social milieux in which consumers were located, are just as important to understand as the actual acts of consumption. The German sociologist Norbert Elias introduced Freudian insights into human psychology into a ‘processual’, or what is sometimes called a ‘figurational’, framework for his historical sociology. His works have had a major impact on the history of sociability and knowledge formation. The history of ‘civil society’ has been a major growth industry in the last few decades, and much of this work has developed under the rubric of explaining and exploring the rise of a ‘public sphere’ in early modern Europe. Unlike Elias, the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas located the origins of modern sociability and civil society outside of the realm of court society.

scholarly journals Walka klas w społeczeństwie dworskim

2015 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-91
Author(s):  
Borys Cymbrowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Special Form ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
Social Differentiation ◽  
Departure Point ◽  
Reflec Tions ◽  
Norbert Elias ◽  
The Social

The article discusses the social differentiation of the elite at the French court in the era of absolutism, as depicted by Norbert Elias in his book Die höfische Gesellschaft [The Court Society]. The internal struggles of this elite are presented as a special form of figuration, which Elias calls ‘court figuration’ to indicate the processual nature of the phenomenon. The departure point for the author of the article’s further reflec-tions is the premise that these conflicts are similar to class struggle in the Marxist sense (particularly the analyses contained in Marx’s earlier writings). As a result, figurational analysis, based on Elias’s historical sociology, is shown to be a particularly useful category in studying the social differentiation lying at the base of social change, that is, in analysing both long-term processes of social change and rapid processes ofa revolutionary character.

The Role of Law in the Civilizing Process and the Reform of Popular Culture

1995 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Moral Regulation ◽  
Civilizing Process ◽  
Norbert Elias ◽  
Two Bodies

AbstractThis paper builds on the notion that cultural revolution has always been implicated in processes of state formation and is manifest in moral regulation, which produces the normalizing, taken-for-granted reality of deep processes of social change. Two bodies of work are examined—namely, Norbert Elias' historical sociology of the civilizing process, and Peter Burke and the English social historians' concept of the “reform of popular culture”—for the insights they can provide into the part played by law in the formation of the modern state, the modern self, and the practice of everyday life.

Law and Civilization: Norbert Elias as a Regulation Theorist

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 267-288
Author(s):  
Robert van Krieken
Keyword(s):  
State Formation ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
Institutional Dynamics ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Norbert Elias ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Social Scientific

The German sociologist Norbert Elias developed a wide-ranging sociological analysis of the interconnections between processes of state formation, institutional dynamics, and individual subjectivity, or habitus, and the logic of their processes of transformation over time. His work has had significant impact on social scientific thought in a wide variety of fields, including the historical sociology of the self, violence, crime and punishment, organizations, emotions, sexuality, social control, and sport. His influence in legal scholarship, however, has concentrated in criminology, with only sporadic use of his ideas in relation to other topics in law and social science research. This review highlights the ways in which Elias can be read as a theorist of regulation by outlining ( a) the core elements of Elias's “process-figurational” sociology and his analysis of processes of civilization and decivilization; ( b) Elias's observations on law and state formation; ( c) a selection of the sociolegal research related to his sociological approach, in fields such as crime and punishment, evolving modes of regulation, and international relations; and ( d) the potential future directions in which Elias's process-figurational approach might move in sociolegal research and scholarship. These include the emotional dimensions of family law, human rights and humanitarianism, the intersections of legal evolution and broader processes of social change, legal pluralism and legal culture, tort law, constitutionalism, and the rule of law.

scholarly journals EMOÇÕES E SOCIEDADE: UM PASSEIO NA OBRA DE NORBERT ELIAS

2013 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro Guilherme Pinheiro Koury
Keyword(s):  
Individual Action ◽  
Sociology Of Emotions ◽  
Small Opening ◽  
Norbert Elias ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Way

Este ensaio é uma introdução ao modo de pensar e fazer sociológico e aos processos de construções novas realizadas pela sociologia de Norbert Elias. Busca compreender a importância da obra de Norbert Elias para a análise social, cultural e histórica, tendo como lugar principal de fala a sociologia e como recorte de olhar, específico, a economia emocional por ele proposta e sua contribuição à sociologia das emoções. Em um primeiro andamento, o ensaio faz uma pequena abertura discursiva às diversas sociologias contidas na obra de Elias. Em seguida, procura realizar um sobrevoo nas relações tensas e de equilíbrio frágil entre indivíduo e sociedade, pairando sobre o processo de adequação e consolidação de uma nova sensibilidade ocidental, por meio da internalização dos sentimentos e, em particular, da vergonha como motriz da ação individual no cultural e no societal. No momento final discute as noções de habitus e de rede humana configuracional. This paper is an introduction to the way of thinking and doing sociological processes and new constructions undertaken by the sociology of Norbert Elias. It seeks to understand the importance of the work of Norbert Elias to analyze social, cultural and historical, whose principal place of talking sociology, and cut to look like, specifically, the emotional economy proposed by him and his contribution to the sociology of emotions. In a first movement, the essay makes a small opening to the various discursive sociologies contained in the work of Elias. It then attempts to perform a flyover in relations strained and fragile balance between individual and society, hovering over the process of adjustment and consolidation of a new Western sensibility through internalization of feelings and in particular shame as the motives of individual action in cultural and societal. In the final moment eliasiana discusses the notions of habitus and configuracional human network.

Manners, Deference, and Private Property in Early Modern Europe

1997 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 694-728 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Graeber
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Norbert Elias ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
Comparative Ethnography ◽  
General Period

This essay is an attempt to map out the rudiments of a theory of manners and formal deference and to demonstrate how such a theory can be usefully applied to certain long-standing problems in the historical sociology of Europe. It is also meant to demonstrate the continuing relevance of comparative ethnography for social theory—something which has been somewhat cast into doubt in recent years.The historical problems I have in mind is how Max Weber's famous observations (1930) about how the rise of Puritanism was related to the emergence of a commercial economy in early modern Europe can be related to processes that other scholars have noted during that same general period, the rise of “puritanism” in its more colloquial sense, even in areas totally unaffected by Calvinist theology. I am thinking particularly here of the work of Norbert Elias and Peter Burke.

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