Norbert Elias and Émile Durkheim: Seeds of a Historical Sociology of Knowledge

2013 ◽  
pp. 127-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hector Vera
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
Emile Durkheim ◽  
Norbert Elias

Global Age Essays on Social and Cultural Change

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Albrow
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Emile Durkheim ◽  
Global Society ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Collective Response ◽  
Norbert Elias ◽  
Global Age ◽  
Global Discourse

In 14 previously unpublished essays British sociologist Martin Albrow develops the Global Age thesis that he first proposed in the 90s to capture the novelty of our own epoch. He absorbs insights from Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Arnold Toynbee and Norbert Elias into a global discourse that shapes new approaches to abiding human dilemmas of faith, justice and responsibility. Even in resisting the idea that globalization and Americanization are inevitable he argues that framing our time as global promotes a collective response to the challenges facing humankind. The hope for a human future depends on a normative ordering of global society, on global governance that allows local, national and global cultures to co-exist and thrive.

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.

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1976 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-177
Author(s):  
John B. Allcock ◽  
Michael Anderson ◽  
Elizabeth Barnard ◽  
Gerald Bernbaum ◽  
Ian K. Birksted ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Control Volume ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Emile Durkheim ◽  
Sociology Of Art ◽  
The Family ◽  
Politics Of Race ◽  
And Control

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.

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