TY - BOOK AU - Loyal, Steven, ed. AU - Quilley, Stephen, ed. TI - The sociology of Norbert Elias SN - 9780521535090 U1 - 301 PY - 2004/// CY - Cambridge PB - University of Cambridge Press KW - Modern Civilization KW - Social structure KW - Historical sociology KW - Sociology N1 - Towards a 'central theory': the scope and relevance of Norbert Elias / Stephen Quilley and Steven Loyal -- Sociology as a Human Science: Norbert Elias and the Sociology of Knowledge: -- From distance to detachment: knowledge and self-knowledge in Elias's theory of involvement and detachment / Richard Kilminster -- Ecology, 'human nature' and civilising processes: biology and sociology in the work of Norbert Elias / Stephen Quilley -- Between the real and the reified: Elias on time / Barry Barnes -- Processes of Stratification: Figurations of Race, Class and Gender: -- The figurational dynamics of racial stratification: a conceptual discussion and developmental analysis of black-white relations in the United States / Eric Dunning -- Decivilising and demonising: the social and symbolic remaking of the black ghetto and Elias in the dark ghetto / Loi;c Wacquant -- Elias on class and stratification / Steven Loyal -- Elias on gender relations: the changing balance of power between the sexes / Christien Brinkgreve -- The Formation of Individuals and States: -- Not so exceptional? State-formation processes in America / Stephen Mennell -- Armed peace: on the pacifying condition for the co-operative of States / Paul Kapteyn -- Changing regimes of manners and emotions: from disciplining to informalizing / Cas Wouters -- Elias and modern penal development / John Pratt -- Elias, Freud and Goffman: shame as the master emotion / Thomas Scheff -- Religion and Civilising Processes: Weber and Elias Compared: -- Weber and Elias on religion and violence: warrior charisma and the civilising process / Bryan Turner -- Christian religion and the European civilising process: the views of Norbert Elias and Max Weber compared / Johan Goudsblom ER -