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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821326703321

Autore

Wouters Cas

Titolo

Informalization : manners and emotions since 1890 / / Cas Wouters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Los Angeles, Calif., : SAGE Publications, 2007

ISBN

1-84860-611-7

9786612560491

1-4129-4718-9

1-282-56049-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 274 p.) : ill

Collana

Theory, culture & society

Classificazione

71.57

Disciplina

395.0904

Soggetti

Etiquette - History - 20th century

Emotions - Social aspects - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-256)  and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Manners: Theory and History; 3 Social Mixing and Status Anxieties; 4 Decreasing Social and Psychic Distance - Increasing Social Integration and Identification; 5 Introductions and Friendships, Forms of Address, and Other Differences in National Habitus Formation; 6 The Spiral Process of Informalization: Phases of Informalization and Reformalization; 7 Connecting Social and Psychic Processes:Third Nature; Appendix 1: Informalization of Manners and of Labour Relations; Appendix 2: On Norbert Elias and Informalization Theory; Notes; References

Name IndexSubject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Following the success of 'Sex and Manners', this title explains the sweeping changes to 20th century regimes of manners and self.