This book is intended to be a theoretical contribution to the sociology of the body and the
rapidly expanding field of 'body studies'. In what follows I examine the changing status of the …

The angry emotions, and the problems they presented, were an ancient Greek
preoccupation from Homer to late antiquity. From the first lines of the Iliad to the church …

In everyday life we are not, for the most part, actively conscious of our bodies or the bodies
of others–we simply take them for granted. This new edition of a lively introduction to the …

For most of the twentieth century, modernity has been characterised by the formalisation of
social relations as face to face interactions are replaced by impersonal bureaucracy and …

Автор книги, профессор Вестминстерского университета, директор Центра изучения
демократии (Лондон), рассматривает темы, ставшие центральными для …

1 The sound of canon-fire 1 Modernity and Elias 1 America and Europe 3 The Organization
of this Book 4 Elias, Foucault, Arendt, Parsons, Bauman 4 Artists and Surveyors 6 Visions of …

This title was first published in 2000: Between 1900 and 1950 130 women were sentenced
to death for murder in England and Wales. Only 12 of these women were actually executed …

Drawing from a range of critical perspectives, in particular postcolonial, this book examines
the relationship between perceptions of Russia and of Eastern Europe and the making of …

This research examines why nations differ as to rates of imprisonment, prison conditions,
and use of capital punishment. Variables representing the major theoretical perspectives are …

Outlines a framework for a theory of decivilizing processes, suggested to bring into closer
focus civilizing principles described by Norbert Elias Three key civilizing processes …