New book: Excitement Processes
Jan Haut, Paddy Dolan, Dieter Reicher and Raúl Sánchez García (eds), Excitement Processes : Norbert Elias’s unpublished works on sports, leisure, body, culture (Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2017), 322 pp. ISBN: 9783658149116. This book contains some of the most important of...
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Read moreNew Book: The Social Organisation of Marketing: A Figurational Approach
The Social Organisation of Marketing: A Figurational Approach to People, Organisations, and Markets Editors: John Connolly and Paddy Dolan The book examines the social processes which have shaped the development and organisation of various marketing practices and activities, and the...
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Read moreCfP ISA Toronto 2018: Elias, Habitus and Organizations
ISA XIX World Congress of Sociology, Toronto: CfP RC17 Sociology of Organisation session on “Elias, Habitus and Organizations: Civilizing and decivilizing processes in organizational life” Abstracts must be submitted by 30 September through the ISA conference website. This session focuses on...
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Read moreAndrew Abbott: Processual Sociology
The prominent and outstanding American sociologist Andrew Abbott – who is, among other things Editor of the American Journal of Sociology – recently published a book entitled Processual Sociology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016). Like his earlier book Time Matters:...
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Read moreISA Toronto 2018: CfP WARFARE, DISTANCE AND ‘CIVILIZING PROCESS’
RC 56 : Historical Sociology DEADLINE : Abstracts must be submitted by 20 September 20th 2017, through the ISA conference website Combat at a distance is not new and precedes what Elias called "the civilizing process", but the development and generalization...
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Read moreISA XIX World Congress of Sociology, Toronto: CfP RC56 Sessions
Abstract submission is now open for the ISA World Congress next year. Abstracts must be submitted by 30 September through the ISA conference website. The sessions include the following topics: Comparative and Historical Sociology of Women’s Careers Confucius' Trap Figurational Dynamics,...
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Read moreEstablished and Outsiders at the Same Time – free online
Established and Outsiders at the Same Time: Self-Images and We-Images of Palestinians in the West Bank and in Israel", ed. Gabriele Rosenthal, Göttingen: Göttingen University Press, 2016. The online version of this book is available free - at http://univerlag.uni-goettingen.de/bitstream/handle/3/isbn-978-3-86395-286-0/GSSCA8_rosenthal.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Palestinians frequently...
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Read moreLiz Stanley: The Racializing Process – free download
Dear Colleagues, For the five days between 1 and 5 July, Liz Stanley's new book is available free for downloading for reading on all tablets and related devices, in a special Amazon promotion. The paperback is also available at £5.99...
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Read moreCambio CfP: Is (historical) sociology Eurocentric?
CAMBIO. Rivista sulle trasformazioni sociali – Number 13, June 2017 For the Review’s monographic section we will consider theoretical and empirical research contributions on the topic: Is (historical) sociology Eurocentric? Nation building, European integration and cosmopolitanism: critical and normative visions Edited...
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Read moreESA Athens 29 August–1 September 2017
Steve Loyal will be attending the European Sociological Association’s 13th Annual Conference in Athens in August. He would like to know whether any other readers of this blog will be there. If you are attending, please contact Steve directly at...
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