Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
1. Troubled Times: Editors' Introduction
Part I: Renewing Classical Themes2. The Question of Inequality: Trends of Functional Democratisation and De-democratisation 3. Vox Populi Then and Now4. Figurational Sociology of the Rule of Law: A Case of Central and Eastern Europe5. Transformations of Human Rights within Ruptures and Continuity: A Historico-Sociological Approach6. Civilising Digitalisation: In Search of a New balance with Today's Technological Innovations7. Confronting Uncertainties: Process Sociology Converges with the Ecological Risk Society of the Becks
Part II: Violence and Faces of the War8. The Civilising Process, Decline of Homicide and Mass Murder Societies: Norbert Elias and the History of Violence9. A Throwback to Violence? Outline for a Process-Sociological Approach to 'Terror' and 'Terrorism'10. Violence and Power: The Kaiow and Guarani Indigenous Peoples11. Analysing European Defence with Elias's Historical Sociology (1990-2020)
Part III: Established-Outsiders Relations and Habitus Issues12. Weaving Elias's Thought with Indigenous Perspectives and Lives: Proposal for a Research Agenda13. A Question of Function: Unequal Power Ratios and Asylum Seekers in Ireland14. Thoughts on Describing Established and Outsider Figurations in Inner Mongolia15. Generational Figuration and We-Group Formation in the Palestinian West Bank since the 1970s16. The Israeli National Habitus and Historiography: The Importance of Generations and State Building17. The Established and The Outsiders: An Incomplete Study?
Part IV: Conclusive Reflections18. Some Political Implications of Sociology from an Eliasian Point of View