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Norman Gabriel and Stephen Mennell (eds), Norbert Elias and Figurational Sociology: Processual Thinking in Sociology, Sociological Review Monograph (Oxford: Wiley–Blackwell, 2011). vi + 271 pp.
Contents
Series Editor's Introduction, Chris Shilling
1 Introduction: Handing over the torch: intergenerational processes in figurational sociology, Norman Gabriel
and Stephen Mennell
2 Three faces of civilization: 'In the beginning all the world was Ireland.', Robert van Krieken
3 Process sociology and international relations, Andrew Linklater
4 Entropy, the anthroposphere and the ecology of civilization: An essay on the problem of 'liberalism in one
village' in the long view, Stephen Quilley
5 Norbert Elias's post-philosophical sociology: from 'critique' to relative detachment, Richard Kilminster
6 Towards a process-oriented methodology: modern social science research methods and Norbert Elias's
figurational sociology, Nina Baur and Stefanie Ernst
7 How civilizing processes continued: towards an informalisation of manners and a third nature personality,
Cas Wouters
8 Sport and leisure, Katie Liston
9 A land of a hundred thousand welcomes? Understanding established and outsiders relations in Ireland, Steven
Loyal
10 Norbert Elias and developmental psychology, Norman Gabriel
11 Norbert Elias, the civilizing process and penal development in modern society, John Pratt
12 Meetings: the frontline of civilization, Wilbert van Vree