9780231045513-0231045514-What Is Sociology? (European Perspectives)

What Is Sociology? (European Perspectives)

ISBN-13: 9780231045513
ISBN-10: 0231045514
Author: Norbert Elias
Publication date: 1984
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Paperback 187 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780231045513
ISBN-10: 0231045514
Author: Norbert Elias
Publication date: 1984
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Paperback 187 pages

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What Is Sociology? (European Perspectives) (ISBN-13: 9780231045513 and ISBN-10: 0231045514), written by authors Norbert Elias, was published by Columbia University Press in 1984. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other Social Sciences books. You can easily purchase or rent What Is Sociology? (European Perspectives) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Social Sciences books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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What is Sociology? presents in concise and provocative form the major ideas of a seminal thinker whose work―spanning more than four decades―is only now gaining the recognition here it has long had in Germany and France. Unlike other post-war sociologists, Norbert Elias has always held the concept of historical development among his central concerns; his dynamic theories of the evolution of modern man have remedied the historical and epistemological shortcomings of structualism and ethno-methodology.

What is Sociology? refines the arguments that were first found in Elias' massive work on the civilizing process, in which he formulated his major assertions about the interdependence of the making of modern man and modern society.

It is Elias' contention that changes in personality structure―embodied in phenomena ranging from table manners and hygiene habits to rites of punishment and courtly love―inevitably reflect and mould patterns of control generated by new political and social instututions. Elias' rejection of a dichotomy between individual and society, and his use of psychoanalysis, political theory, and social history, help restore a fullness of resource to sociology.
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