The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations by Norbert Elias, Edmund F.N. Jephcott, Eric Dunning
The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations

Norbert Elias, Edmund F.N. Jephcott, Eric Dunning

The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations

Norbert Elias, Edmund F.N. Jephcott, Eric Dunning with Norbert Elias (Translator)

567 pages first pub 1939 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative medium-paced
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The Civilizing Process stands out as Norbert Elias' greatest work, tracing the "civilizing" of manners and personality in Western Europe since the late Middle Ages by demonstrating how the formation of states and the monopolization of power within...

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