Norbert Elias and Empirical Research

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction

   • François Dépelteau, Tatiana Savoia Landini

   Pages 1-7

3. Therapeutic Culture and Self-Help Literature: The “Positive Psychology Code”

   • Helena Béjar

   Pages 9-27

4. Elias and Literature: Psychogenesis of Brazil in French Books for Young People

   • Andréa Borges Leão

   Pages 29-42

5. The Civilization of Capital Punishment in France

   • Emmanuel Taïeb

   Pages 43-61

6. Civilizing and Decivilizing Characteristics of the Contemporary Penal Field

   • John Pratt

   Pages 63-81

7. Jurists, Police, Doctors, and Psychologists: Discussing Sexual Violence in Twentieth-Century Brazil

   • Tatiana Savoia Landini

   Pages 83-110

8. Civilizing “Life Itself”: Elias and Foucault

   • Dominique Memmi

   Pages 111-123

9. The New Style: Etiquette during the Exile of the Portuguese Court in Rio de Janeiro (1808–1821)

   • Jurandir Malerba

   Pages 125-159

10. Principal Elements of the Ottoman State-Formation Process through an Eliasian Perspective

    • İrem Özgören Kιnlι

    Pages 161-178

11. The Metamorphoses of the Dacha: Some Processual Thinking

    • François Dépelteau, Ronan Hervouet

    Pages 179-196

12. Revisiting Relations between the Sexes in Sport on the Island of Ireland

    • Katie Liston

    Pages 197-217

13. Germany’s Special Path to Where? Elias in the Eurozone

    • Matt Clement

    Pages 219-237

14. Norbert Elias and the Enigma of Time

    • Jiří Šubrt

    Pages 239-252

15. Comparing Norbert Elias and Mikhail Bakhtin: The History of Laughter and the Civilizing Process

    • Thomas Maxwell Shore

    Pages 253-266

16. Back Matter

    Pages 267-273

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Norbert Elias has been recognized as one of the key social scientists of the 20th century at least in sociology, political science and history. This book will address Norbert Elias's approach to empirical research, the use of his work in empirical research, and compare him with other theorists.

• Norbert Elias
• sociological theory
• sociology
• figurational sociology
• process sociology
• empirical research
• capital
• Empirical Research
• political science
• Sport
• violence

"After Norbert Elias and Social Theory, François Dépelteau and Tatiana Savoia Landini continue their beautiful effort to diffuse the thought of Norbert Elias by showing its actuality with Norbert Elias and Empirical Research. With his figurational and processual sociology, the German sociologist refused the separation between the historical, the psychological, and the social, and invited the researchers not to abandon empirical inquiry. These messages have been perfectly heard by the researchers who contributed to this book." Bernard Lahire, Professor of Sociology, Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines, France

"This book provides an original and insightful collection of theoretically informed empirical essays using the work of Elias. It is strongly recommended." - Steven Loyal, Senior Lecturer, School of Sociology, University College Dublin, Ireland

Matt Clement, University of Winchester, UK Ronan Hervouet, Université de Bordeaux, France Andréa Borges, University of São Paulo, Brazil Katie Liston, University of Ulster, UK Jurandir Malerba, Pontifical Catholic University of Porto Alegre, Brazil Dominique Memmi, National Center for Scientific Research, France Irem Ozgoren Kinli, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey John Pratt, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Thomas Maxwell Shore, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Ji?í ubrt, Charles University, Prague Emmanuel Taïeb, University of Lyon 2, France

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