Death of Stanislav Andreski (1919-2007)
Posted on October 10, 2007 by Stephen Mennell The death has been announced of the great Polish-British sociologist Stanislav Andreski, Professor Emeritus at the University of Reading. His books included Military Organization and Society (1954, rev. edn 1968, which first...
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Read moreFigurational Sociology group in the ISA
Posted on September 20, 2006 by admin Stephen Mennell and I would like to ensure that there’s a good set of Figurational Sociology sessions at the next ISA World Congress in 2010, and it would be useful to know who’s...
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Read more‘Artingstore’ and ‘Fornalini’
Posted on August 27, 2007 by Stephen Mennell In the essay “Technisation and Civilisation” (Theory, Culture & Society 12 (3) 1995: 7-42), Elias refers to pioneers of aviation including “Artingstore and Cayley in England, Ader and Pénaud in France, Fornalini...
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Read more38th IIS World Congress, Budapest, 26-30 June 2008
Posted on August 21, 2007 by admin Call for volunteers! It would be good to run some sessions on Elias and/or figurational or process sociology at the IIS conference in Budapest in June next year, but we need at least...
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Read moreNature & Sociology – new book by Tim Newton
Posted on August 13, 2007 by admin Nature and Sociology. London: Routledge. August 2007: 212pp. ISBN: 978-0-415-366847 (hardback, £65); ISBN: 978-0-415-36683-0 (paperback, £22.99) Nature has become increasingly central to social thinking. From the social implications of environmental degradation to the...
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Read moreElias’s poem
Posted on August 13, 2007 by Daniel Klenbort Can anyone give me a reference to a little poem Elias wrote that essentially says, we must fight evil, but at the same time be aware our opponents are also caught in...
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Read moreNature & Sociology – new book by Tim Newton
Posted on August 13, 2007 by admin Nature and Sociology. London: Routledge. August 2007: 212pp. ISBN: 978-0-415-366847 (hardback, £65); ISBN: 978-0-415-36683-0 (paperback, £22.99) Nature has become increasingly central to social thinking. From the social implications of environmental degradation to the...
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Read moreElias, Actor-Network Theory and Neo-liberalism
Posted on July 20, 2007 by Tim Newton A couple of brief questions in the hope of some answers … 1. Does anyone know of work on Elias and Actor-Network theory? The ISI ‘web of knowledge’ only produces articles by...
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Read moreElias, Actor-Network Theory and Neo-liberalism
Posted on July 20, 2007 by Tim Newton A couple of brief questions in the hope of some answers … 1. Does anyone know of work on Elias and Actor-Network theory? The ISI ‘web of knowledge’ only produces articles by...
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Read moreCivilizing Security
Posted on June 11, 2007 by admin A book recently published by two criminologists, Ian Loader and Neil Walker, titled Civilizing Security (CUP, 2007), aims to provide some useful reflections on the way that the state manages security in the world...
Last edited on: 2007-06-11
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