Civilisation as Deferred Gratification
Stephen Mennell will give a lecture on 'Childhood and Society: Civilisation as Deferred Gratification' at 18:00 on Tuesday 23 January in the Interdisziplinäres Zentrum: Kindheiten, Gesellschaften, of the Fakultät Human- und Sozialwissenschaften at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal (Gaußstraße 20, 42097 Wuppertal).
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Read moreEros and Thanatos — new book by Hans-Peter Waldhoff
Eros and Thanatos as Driving Forces of Thought: Psychoanalytical and Epistemological Perspectives In modern, ostensibly enlightened societies, people tend to deny both their destructive passions as well as their own mortality. This book postulates that such repression will resurface in a...
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Read moreElias Conference, Brussels, 5-8 December 2018
Global Interdependencies: What’s new in the human society of individuals? The political and academic relevance of Norbert Elias’s work today Brussels, Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles 5–8 December 2018 The Research Centre in Political Science (CReSPo) and the Institute for European Studies (IEE) of...
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Read moreKilminster 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...
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Read moreComparative-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...
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Read moreEros 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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Read moreFashion, 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...
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Read moreNew 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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