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

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

The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations

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