The American Civilizing ProcessJohn Wiley & Sons, 2013/04/24 - 400 ページ Since 9/11, the American government has presumed to speak and act in the name of ‘civilization’. But isthat how the rest of the world sees it? And if not, why not? Stephen Mennell leads up to such contemporary questions through a careful study of the whole span of American development, from the first settlers to the American Empire. He takes a novel approach, analysing the USA’s experience in the light of Norbert Elias’s theory of civilizing (and decivilizing) processes. Drawing comparisons between the USA and other countries of the world, the topics discussed include:
Mennell shows how the long-term experience of Americans has been of growing more and more powerful in relation to their neighbours. This has had all-pervasive effects on the way they see themselves, their perception of the rest of the world, and how the rest of the world sees them. Mennell’s compelling and provocative account will appeal to anyone concerned about America's role in the world today, including students and scholars of American politics and society. |
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Stephen Mennell. American Aristocracies The colonial gentry The South: American Junkers? The North: working upper Classes From cumulative to dispersed inequalities? A significant absence: an aristocracy of office Conclusion The Market ...
Stephen Mennell. behaviour and feelings and social character — what sociologists now fashionably call 'habitus' — are shaped within the structure and culture of the societies in which they live; and, on the other, that the structure and ...
Stephen Mennell. areas — not just in Europe, but in the other continents: South America, Asia, Australia. Yet a puzzle remained: why (to adapt the famous question posed by Werner Sombart about the absence of strong socialist movements) ...
Stephen Mennell. Europe, and of Europe's sternly critical parental watchfulness over all things American. Both elements were already present in the famous remarks of John Winthrop, first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony ...
Stephen Mennell. The early colonists' minds were thus furnished not just with various kinds of Christian religious belief but also, among other things, with beliefs in astrology and horoscopes, spontaneous generation, an invisible world ...