Civilisation and Informalisation Connecting Long-Term Social and Psy
Over the last century and a half, manners and formalities in the West have become less status-ridden, stiff and rigid. Debates around Norbert Elias’ theory of civilising processes gave rise to questions of a change in direction of these patterns. The conc
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Civilisation and Informalisation
Cas Wouters • Michael Dunning Editors
Civilisation and Informalisation Connecting Long-Term Social and Psychic Processes
Editors Cas Wouters Utrecht University Amsterdam The Netherlands
Michael Dunning University of Leicester Leicester, UK
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Preface
This reader originated about five years ago as a plan for a book, to be made by me, Cas Wouters. It was meant to be executed in a slow and relaxed pace. The plan was soon enlarged when I started to ask colleagues and friends whether they would like to write a chapter that could be added to the book, that thus would amount to a reader on ‘Informalisation and …’ Gradually, I accumulated several people who showed an interest in the project of demonstrating the importance of the breakthrough and development of informalisation in their various fields of expertise. The pace of writing and realising the plan accelerated considerably in November 2017, when I heard that the Norbert Elias Foundation intended to fund the organisation of a symposium in honour of my contribution to sociology. Together with Arjan Post, who in an earlier phase of preparing for this book had a
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