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Vad sker i ett vanligt bostadsområde i en engelsk industristad när en grupp nyinflyttade arbetare från London försöker anpassa sig till stadsdelen? Följden blir en konflikt och …

The body is a physical entity and a symbolic artifact. It is both created in the world of nature and also physically reconstructed by a culture. The body is both an internal, …

The emergence of the professional naval officer was related both to the necessities of naval warfare and to the structure of society on land. Originally warships were manned by two …

The last major work by one of our century's most influential social theorists, The Germans is a penetrating account of German social development, from the seventeenth century to …

This is Volume 3 in the "Collected Works of Norbert Elias", translated by Edmund Jephcott. Recognised as one of the most important works of sociology in the last century, "On the …

"Involvement and Detachment" is much more than a discussion of 'objectivity' in the social sciences. It is Elias' major exposition of his sociological theory of the growth of …

"The Symbol Theory, volume 13 in "The Collected Works of Norbert Elias", situates the human capacity for forming symbols in the long-term biological evolution of Homo sapiens, …

Dieser Text aus dem Nachlass von Norbert Elias offenbart die Fruchtbarkeit der soziologischen Auseinandersetzung mit Lebensthemen und ihrer zivilisationstheoretischen Verarbeitung. …

Originally published in 1991 and now reissued by Continuum International, this book consists of three sections. The first, written in 1939, was either left out of Elias's most …

Vol. 17 of the Collected Works can serve as an excellent introduction to Elias's thinking overall. In the last decade of his life, Elias gave many interviews in which he discussed …