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Kilminster conference: The Sociology of Sociology in Long-term Perspective

Invitation to: The Sociology of Sociology in Long-term Perspective: A conference in honour of Richard Kilminster Dear Colleague, You are warmly invited to attend a special two-day conference: The Sociology of Sociology in Long-term Perspective: A conference in honour of...

Last edited on: 2021-09-30

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Comparative-historical sociology and ‘crackpot realism’

A special issue of the online journal Human Figurations has been published on the theme of ‘Comparative-historical sociology as antidote to the “crackpot realism” of the twenty-first century’. The engaging term ‘crackpot realism’ was coined by C. Wright Mills in...

Last edited on: 2021-09-30

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Eros und Thanatos — new book by Hans-Peter Waldhoff

(For our valued German readers.)   Hans-Peter Waldhoff Eros und Thanatos als Triebkräfte des Denkens Psychoanalytische und erkenntniskritische Perspektiven   Etwa 120 S. · br. · EUR 19,90 ISBN 978-3-95832-137-3 (erscheint 1.9.2017)   Die Abspaltung des Todestriebs gebiert Ungeheuer. Besonders in modernen,...

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Fashion, beauty and Elias

The journal Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty is looking for contributions to the study of fashion, body, beauty, identity and appearance. This flagship fashion journal of Intellect Books launched 8 years ago, spearheaded a successful series of visual culture...

Last edited on: 2017-08-19

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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Jan Haut, Paddy Dolan, Dieter Reicher and Raúl Sánchez García (eds), Excitement Processes : Norbert Elias’s unpublished works on sports, leisure, body, culture (Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2017), 322 pp.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...

Last edited on: 2017-08-17

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New 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...

Last edited on: 2017-08-14

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CfP 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...

Last edited on: 2017-08-02

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Andrew 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:...

Last edited on: 2017-07-22

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ISA 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...

Last edited on: 2017-07-03

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ISA 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,...

Last edited on: 2017-07-03

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