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A translation that contains Norbert Elias' broadest statement of the fundamentals of sociology, in important respects very different from the...
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Beginning with the author's celebrated study of the changing standards of behaviour of the secular upper classes in Western Europe...
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Situates the human capacity for forming symbols in the long-term biological evolution of Homo sapiens, showing how it is linked...
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Why do some people become more religiously conservative over time, whilst others moderate their views or abandon faith altogether? Drawing...
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Demonstrates that individualisation is an inherent component of the personal socialisation process and of inter-generational civilising processes, exploding the myth...
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Like his father Leopold, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was dependent on a court aristocracy in whose eyes he was little more...
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Contains two shorter books - "The Loneliness of the Dying", which discusses the changing social context of death and dying...
A memoir that presents an account of the author's imprisonment in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising and subsequent internment...
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Examines the relationship between Protestants and Catholics and the notion that southern Protestants are somehow not really Irish. From interviews...
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The Irish hospitals sweepstake, initially established to provide money for cash-strapped voluntary hospitals in Dublin, provided funding for Irish hospitals...
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The Irish hospitals sweepstake, initially established to provide money for cash-strapped voluntary hospitals in Dublin, provided funding for Irish hospitals...
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Between the end of the Second World War and his death in 1990, Elias published almost 60 articles on a...
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Gaelic sports have been played for over a century in America, and provide a window into the lives and culture...
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Contains 28 essays some of which directly express Elias' dissatisfaction with the ahistorical, present-centred trend of modern sociology. This book...
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Presents themes that represent major extensions of and reflections upon the ideas first advanced in "The Civilizing Process". This title...
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Argues that in highly constrained, 'civilised' societies, sports - as well as a spectrum of other cultural and leisure activities...
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Explains differences in power and rank between two very similar groups - both working class - in a local community...
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Aims to turn an ancient philosophical question - what is time? - into a researchable theoretical-empirical problem. What we call...