38th 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...
Last edited on: 2007-07-20
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...
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Read moreDesperately seeking pigeons
Posted on June 4, 2007 by Stephen Mennell Eric Dunning recently recalled having written an article with Norbert Elias on the popular working-class hobby of pigeon racing, sometime in the late 1960s, which he thought had been published in an...
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Read moreAnti-War Film
Posted on May 24, 2007 by Thomas Scheff My 58 minute anti-war film will begin playing nationwide on June 4, and about 20 more times in June and July. Crying is a subtext of the film; there is a lot...
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Read moreConcrete and Abstract: Elias, Cooley, Freud, and Goffman
Posted on May 19, 2007 by Thomas Scheff My iron law of all online forums is that they first blossom then wither. So be it. This is my attempt to stave off the process on this forum for a while....
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