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In 1984, the celebrated sociologist and historian Norbert Elias
convened a major conference on 'Civilisations and civilising
processes' at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (University
of Bielefeld). Participants included the most distinguished and
influential scholars in historical sociology and world history.
This book will make available, for the first time in one place, the
papers presented by the speakers and, even more interestingly, the
transcripts of discussions at the symposium. This conference
brought together eminent and internationally reputed scholars of
macro-history and historical sociology including Johann P. Arnason,
Elias, Hans-Dieter Evers, Johan Goudsblom, Keith Hopkins, William
H. McNeill, and Immanuel Wallerstein. This highly informative
encounter between various leading scholars of humanity's global
social history has never before been published, although it was
completely recorded on paper and in tape recordings. Its
publication in one volume should be an important event for all
students of the long-term structural transformations of humanity.
Translated by Grace Morrissey, Stephen Mennell and Edmund Jephcott,
volume 5 of the "Collected Works of Norbert Elias" contains Elias'
broadest statement of the fundamentals of sociology, in important
respects very different from the discipline as it is
institutionalised today. In his vision, sociology is concerned with
the whole course of the development of human society. Especially
important are the 'game models', which demonstrate the connections
between power ratios, unintended consequences, unplanned long-term
processes and the way people perceive and conceptualise the social
processes in which they are caught up in interdependence with each
other. This edition contains two extra chapters previously
unpublished in English, one of them a substantial discussion of the
legacy of Marx.
Die Wiederentdeckung der Arbeiten Max Webers und Norbert Elias' hat
der sozialwissenschaftlichen Theoriediskussion in den letzten
Jahren wichtige Impulse geliefert. Das gilt nach wie vor auch fur
die Arbeiten der alteren Frankfurter Schule. Die Studie bietet eine
umfassende Interpretation und Bilanz ihrer Beitrage zur Analyse
gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungsprozesse."
Research into biography has historically focused almost wholly on
the lives of people in the wealthier nations of the Global North.
This book corrects that with a focus on the biographical histories
of people--seen as part of larger groups or collectives, whether
religious or political--from the Global South, with a particular
focus on Africa and the Middle East. Taking the perspective of
biographical research and figurational sociology, the essays
gathered here break new ground in the study of biography.
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