Editors:
Brings together and extends some of Wouters' seminal work on ‘informalisation’ in modern societies
Differs from the mainstream perspectives of the sociology of emotions and the sociology of the body, focussing on long-term, processual macro-perspectives
The structure of the chapters takes the reader from the more general, comprehensive and metatheoretical to empirical applications in particular subfields
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Civilisation and Informalisation: The Book. Six Chapters by Cas Wouters
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Front Matter
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Civilisation and Informalisation: The Selection. Six Chapters by Six Authors
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Over the last century and a half, manners and formalities in the West have become less status-ridden, stiff and rigid. Debates around Norbert Elias’ theory of civilising processes gave rise to questions of a change in direction of these patterns. The concept of informalisation, which describes these transformations, was first used to analyse the tumultuous changes of the 1960s and 1970s. This increasing informality, leniency and flexibility, comes hand-in-hand with a growing demand on individuals to self-regulate their emotions.
This book will stimulate debate around the changes in the standards of manners and emotion regulation, and will generate new avenues of enquiry that focus on issues involving informalisation. The chapters shed light on a variety of such moral and political issues over the last 150 years, offering a new and broader scope on the present social condition of humanity. Civilisation and Informalisation will be an important addition for students and scholars of figurational process sociology, and of broader interest to academics across sociology, social psychology and social history.
Editors and Affiliations
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Utrecht University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Cas Wouters
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University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Michael Dunning
About the editors
Cas Wouters is Professor Emeritus, Department of General Social Science, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
Michael Dunning is Lecturer, Department of Media, Communications and Sociology, University of Leicester, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Civilisation and Informalisation
Book Subtitle: Connecting Long-Term Social and Psychic Processes
Editors: Cas Wouters, Michael Dunning
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00798-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-00797-3Published: 19 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-00798-0Published: 31 January 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 390
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Theory, Emotion, Globalization