‘The Production of Space’, in: Frans Jacobi, Imagine, Space Poetry, Copenhagen, 1996, unpaginated.

The Production of Space

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Phenomenology of perception.

All these premises having, as I think, been clearly made out, it is impossible that the rulers now on earth should make any benefit, or derive any the least shadow of authority from that, which is held to be the fountain of all power, Adam's private dominion and paternal jurisdiction; so that he that will not give just occasion to think that all government in the world is the product only of force and violence, and that men live together by no other rules but that of beasts, where the strongest carries it, and so lay a foundation for perpetual disorder and mischief, tumult, sedition and rebellion, (things that the followers of that hypothesis so loudly cry out against) must of necessity find out another rise of government, another original of political power, and another way of designing and knowing the persons that have it, than what Sir Robert Filmer hath taught us.

Two Treatises of Government.

Preface Introduction: Traditions of Nationhood in France and Germany I. The Institution of Citizenship 1. Citizenship as Social Closure 2. The French Revolution and the Invention of National Citizenship 3. State, State-System, and Citizenship in Germany II. Defining The Citizenry: The Bounds of Belonging 4. Citizenship and Naturalization in France and Germany 5. Migrants into Citizens: The Crystallization of Jus Soli in Late-Nineteenth-Century France 6. The Citizenry as Community of Descent: The Nationalization of Citizenship in Wilhelmine Germany 7. \"Etre Francais, Cela se Merite\": Immigration and the Politics of Citizenship in France in the 1980s 8. Continuities in the German Politics of Citizenship Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany.

By Pierre Bourdieu (London: Routledge, 2010), xxx + 607 pp. £15.99 paper. A combination of social theory, statistical data, illustrations, and interviews, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judg...

Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

The central argument of this article is that there is no fact of the matter, no evidence, however tentative or questionable, that will serve adequately to identify actions “chosen” or “determined” for the purposes of sociological theory. This argument will be developed with reference to the two theorists of the greatest importance in advocating the sociological value of the concept of agency: Talcott Parsons, with his “voluntaristic theory of action,” set the scene for the whole agency and structure debate in modern sociology, and Anthony Giddens, in his theory of structuration, provides the most comprehensive recent account. Both theorists put forward grounds and justifications for their use of the concepts of “choice” and “agency,” but it will be argued here that in the last analysis, none of them has any sociological merit.

Agency as a red herring in social theory

1. The Politics of Anthony Giddens Section I Structuration Theory 2. Agency 3. Social Structure 4. Knowledge and Epistemology 5. Time, Space and Historical Sociology 6. Assessment Section II Modernity and Politics 7. Giddens on Modernity 8. The Politics of Anthony Giddens 9. An Interview with Anthony Giddens 10. Conclusion 8.

The Sociology of Anthony Giddens

For the last three decades, sociology has been in a permanent state of theoretical and programmatic disarray. Symptoms of the crisis include ambivalence about the possible scientific status of sociological knowledge, theoretical and methodological fragmentation and ambivalence about the appropriate degree of political and ethical ‘involvement’ in the sociological stance, and deep-seated anxieties about the relationship between sociology and neighbouring disciplines across the human sciences. Through a comprehensive exegesis of his major contributions, it is argued that Norbert Elias provides the foundations for a ‘central theory’, integrating diverse theoretical traditions within sociology, while providing a clear framework for establishing a synthesis across the full range of (social and biological) human sciences. In short, Elias provides us with the rudiments of a comprehensive human science, with sociology well placed to play an orchestrating role in the investigation of phenomena at the highest level...

Eliasian Sociology as a ‘Central Theory’ for the Human Sciences

1. Towards a 'central theory': the scope and relevance of Norbert Elias Stephen Quilley and Steven Loyal Part I. Sociology as a Human Science: Norbert Elias and the Sociology of Knowledge: 2. From distance to detachment: knowledge and self-knowledge in Elias's theory of involvement and detachment Richard Kilminster 3. Ecology, 'human nature' and civilising processes: biology and sociology in the work of Norbert Elias Stephen Quilley 4. Between the real and the reified: Elias on time Barry Barnes Part II. Processes of Stratification: Figurations of Race, Class and Gender: 5. The figurational dynamics of racial stratification: a conceptual discussion and developmental analysis of black-white relations in the United States Eric Dunning 6. Decivilising and demonising: the social and symbolic remaking of the black ghetto and Elias in the dark ghetto Loic Wacquant 7. Elias on class and stratification Steven Loyal 8. Elias on gender relations: the changing balance of power between the sexes Christien Brinkgreve Part III. The Formation of Individuals and States: 9. Not so exceptional? State-formation processes in America Stephen Mennell 10. Armed peace: on the pacifying condition for the co-operative of States Paul Kapteyn 11. Changing regimes of manners and emotions: from disciplining to informalizing Cas Wouters 12. Elias and modern penal development John Pratt 13. Elias, Freud and Goffman: shame as the master emotion Thomas Scheff Part IV. Religion and Civilising Processes: Weber and Elias Compared: 14. Weber and Elias on religion and violence: warrior charisma and the civilising process Bryan Turner 15. Christian religion and the European civilising process: the views of Norbert Elias and Max Weber compared Johan Goudsblom.

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Agency as a red herring in social theory

The Sociology of Anthony Giddens

Eliasian Sociology as a ‘Central Theory’ for the Human Sciences

The Sociology of Norbert Elias

From distance to detachment: knowledge and self-knowledge in Elias's theory of involvement and detachment