XVII World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, 11-17 July 2010
Posted on February 18, 2009 by admin The official Call for Papers for the three proposed Figurational Sociology sessions at the 2010 ISA World Congress has now been posted on the Congress website. Please note the deadline for submission of...
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Read moreNew book: ‘Sozialer Wandel und Macht’
Posted on February 14, 2009 by carsten kaven Kaven, Carsten: Sozialer Wandel und Macht. Die theoretischen Ansaetze von Max Weber, Norbert Elias und Michel Foucault im Vergleich, Muenster (Metropolis), 2006, ISBN: 978-3-89518-557-1 , € 36,80 This book deals with the...
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Read moreNew book: ‘Die Durchsetzung der Reformpolitik in China’
Posted on February 14, 2009 by carsten kaven Kaven, Carsten: Die Durchsetzung der Reformpolitik in China. Analyse eines Ereignisses, Münster (LIT-Verlag), 2009, ISBN: 978-3-8258-1712-1, € 19,90 This book is inspired by Elias’ thinking although the title does not contain his...
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Read moreUpcoming conferences 2009-2010
Posted on January 13, 2009 by Stephen Mennell This post is about three conferences that will take place between summer 2009 and summer 2010. Although they may seem a long time ahead, we urgently need you to indicate whether you...
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Read moreElias’s Collected Essays: First of three volumes published
Posted on January 12, 2009 by Stephen Mennell The latest volume of the Elias Collected Works, volume 15, is the first of three volumes of Elias’s Collected Essays, all of them edited by Richard Kilminster and Stephen Mennell Essays II:...
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Read moreSixth Norbert Elias Prize, 2009
Posted on November 12, 2008 by Stephen Mennell The sixth Norbert Elias Prize will be awarded in 2009. The Prize consists in a sum of €1,000 and it will be awarded to a significant first major book published between 1...
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Read moreNew editions now out: Quest for Excitement/ The Established and the Outsiders
Posted on October 8, 2008 by Stephen Mennell New titles in the Collected Works of Norbert Elias series published by University College Dublin Press, in co-operation with the Norbert Elias Foundation: Elias with Eric Dunning, QUEST FOR EXCITEMENT, edited by...
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Read moreA history of Western music from an Eliasian perspective
Posted on October 5, 2008 by Stephen Mennell Olle Edström, Professor of Musicology at Göteborg University, has written a history of Western music from an Eliasian perspective. Details are: A Different Story: Aesthetics and the History of Western Music (Hillsdale,...
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Read moreElias/Thermodynamics/Darwin (with some comments on ANT)
Posted on September 22, 2008 by edwin sayes Greetings all, I have a couple quick questions but, first, a quick response to a previous post on Elias and ANT. Unfortunately, I don’t know any secondary lit on ANT (at all!)...
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Read moreNew Publication on Elias and Mentoring
Posted on August 20, 2008 by Anke Barzantny I’m delighted to inform you that my dissertation is now published in the VS-Verlag: Barzantny, Anke: Mentoring-Programme für Frauen. Maßnahmen zu Strukturveränderungen in der Wissenschaft? Eine figurationssoziologische Untersuchung zur akademischen Medizin. In...
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