Über den Prozeß der Zivilisation: soziogenetische und psychogenetische Untersuchungen uit 1939 is een boek van de Duitse socioloog Norbert Elias en wordt beschouwd als een standaardwerk op het gebied van de sociologie. Dit boek is ook in het Nederlands verschenen onder de titel Het civilisatieproces. In dit boek legt …
Originally published in 1991 and now reissued by Continuum International, this book consists of three sections. The first, written in 1939, was either left out of Elias's most famous book, The Civilizing Process, or was written along with it. Part 2 was written between 1940 and 1960. Part 3 is from 1987. The entire …
"Mozart's need for love had grown uncertain of itself in early childhood. His feeling of being unloved found constant confirmation in his changing experiences over the years, and the intensity of his unsatisfied desire to be loved, detectable as a dominant wish throughout his life, very largely determined what had …
This essay has, since it was first published in 1956, been regarded as a classic statement on sociological method. Here it is combined with two other of the author's essays. His study represents a departure from traditional sociological and philosophical theories of knowledge. It explores how people orient themselves …