The Civilizing Process

The Civilizing Process

The book The Civilizing Process written by German sociologist Norbert Elias is an influential work in sociology. It was first published in 1939 in German Über den Prozeß der Zivilisation. Because of the World War it was virtually ignored, but republished in the 1960s when it was also translated into English.

External links

* [http://tcs.ntu.ac.uk/tcs/specials/4(2-3).html Special issue of Theory, Culture & Society on "Norbert Elias and Figurational Sociology"]
* [http://www.kuwi.uni-linz.ac.at/hyperelias/z-elias/hypereliasstart.htm HyperElias@WorldCatalogue] , a comprehensive online-bibliography.
* [http://www.norberteliasfoundation.nl/ The Norbert Elias Foundation]


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