Norbert Elias and Empirical Research

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Therapeutic Culture and Self-Help Literature: The “Positive Psychology Code”....Pages 9-27
Elias and Literature: Psychogenesis of Brazil in French Books for Young People....Pages 29-42
The Civilization of Capital Punishment in France....Pages 43-61
Civilizing and Decivilizing Characteristics of the Contemporary Penal Field....Pages 63-81
Jurists, Police, Doctors, and Psychologists: Discussing Sexual Violence in Twentieth-Century Brazil....Pages 83-110
Civilizing “Life Itself”: Elias and Foucault....Pages 111-123
The New Style: Etiquette during the Exile of the Portuguese Court in Rio de Janeiro (1808–1821)....Pages 125-159
Principal Elements of the Ottoman State-Formation Process through an Eliasian Perspective....Pages 161-178
The Metamorphoses of the Dacha: Some Processual Thinking....Pages 179-196
Revisiting Relations between the Sexes in Sport on the Island of Ireland....Pages 197-217
Germany’s Special Path to Where? Elias in the Eurozone....Pages 219-237
Norbert Elias and the Enigma of Time....Pages 239-252
Comparing Norbert Elias and Mikhail Bakhtin: The History of Laughter and the Civilizing Process....Pages 253-266
Back Matter....Pages 267-273