The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations
- ISBN-10
- 0631221611
- ISBN-13
- 9780631221616
- Series
- The Civilizing Process
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 592
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-07-13
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Author
- Norbert Elias
Description
The Civilizing Process stands out as Norbert Elias' greatest work, tracing the "civilizing" of manners and personality in Western Europe since the late Middle Ages by demonstrating how the formation of states and the monopolization of power within them changed Western society forever.
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