New Book: Cas Wouters: Informalization: Manners and Emotions since 1890
Posted on November 9, 2007 by admin This highly original book explains the sweeping changes to twentieth-century regimes of manners and the self. It provides a wealth of empirical evidence to demonstrate how changes in the code of manners and...
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Read moreLecturers/Senior Lecturers in Social Inquiry – University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Posted on November 8, 2007 by admin Two Positions: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Social Inquiry – Environment, Culture and Society and in Social Inquiry – Social Policy and Advocacy Ref No:R191007 The UTS Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences enjoys an...
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Read moreConference: Control or Care of the Self. Sociology of the Subject in the 21st Century, 3-5 July 2008, Hamburg University
Posted on November 7, 2007 by Stefanie Ernst The aim of the conference is to raise the question, if and if so, to what extent the relationships to oneself (its regulation and governance) and towards the other in (post)modern societies...
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Read moreProfessor of Sociology, University of Hull
Posted on November 5, 2007 by admin Applications are welcome from senior social scientists with an international reputation for a newly created Chair of Sociology in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Hull. The Department is multidisciplinary,...
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Read moreForthcoming conference: Elias and Nietzsche Humboldt University, Berlin, 26–7 September, 2008
Posted on October 28, 2007 by Stephen Mennell Zur Genealogie des Zivilisationsprozesses: Friedrich Nietzsche und Norbert Elias Humboldt University, Berlin, 26–7 September, 2008.This conference is being planned by Friederike Günther (Technische Universität Berlin), Angela Holzer (Princeton University), and Enrico Müller...
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Read moreDeath 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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