NORBERT ELIAS AND FIGURATIONAL SOCIOLOGY: INTERVIEW WITH STEPHEN MENNELL
Abstract This is an interview with Stephen Mennell and a set of texts related to Norbert Elias’s figurational sociology that make up the current volume of Sociologia & Antropologia. Mennell provides readers with a review of figurational sociology, as well as its reception and diffusion. More specifically, he reflects upon Elias’s legacies for sociology and his movement away from philosophy; the publication of the collected works of Norbert Elias; authors who influenced Elias; the importance of the sociology of knowledge and the sciences in the body of Elias’s work; the understanding of the concepts of civilising and decivilising processes, and functional democratisation and de-democratisation; resemblances and differentiations between Elias and Bourdieu; concluding with some reflections on the book The American Civilizing Process, published by Mennell in 2007, and on the use of figurational sociology for the study of current political issues.
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| Format: | Digital revista |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
2022
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| Online Access: | http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2238-38752022000100013 |
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