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 sociology of emotion is a new, growing field within the larger discipline of sociology, 1
and part of a wider interdisciplinary renaissance in interest in emotion. All of the nineteenth …

Part of the SAGE Social Thinker series, this book serves as a concise and inviting
introduction to the life and works of Erving Goffman, one of the most prominent social …

The Self According to Goffman and Impression Management In his classic book The
Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959) Goffman provides an account of social life which …

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 …

Few sociologists of the first rank have scandalised the academic world to the extent that
Elias did. Developed out of the German sociology of knowledge in the 1920s, Elias's …

The management of embarrassment and sexuality in health care In this paper, the literature
on embarrassment, the related topics of delicacy and privacy, and the implications for …

This book examines the connection between sociology and the challenges faced by the
modern military. Military sociology has received little attention in the broader academic …

This paper provides a development from previous conceptual frameworks related to the
risk/pain/injury nexus in sporting subcultures (Hughes & Coakley, 1991; Maguire & Roberts …

This paper analyses financial credit in order to re‐examine the work of Norbert Elias,
particularly his association of interdependency complexity with social discipline, and his …