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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... and society' issue. Under whichever label, these concern the question of how to reconcile two equally obvious propositions: on the one hand, that people's behaviour and feelings and social character — what sociologists now Preface.
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 ...
... behaviour, in the codes of manners they followed and in their typical feelings and emotions, to the formation of states with relatively effective monopolies of violence and to changes in the balances of power between social groups ...
... behaviour deeply permeated by the consciousness of hierarchy. How far, though, did the European 'germs' multiplying in American soil develop into strains distinct from those which grew in eighteenth-, nineteenth-and twentieth-century ...
... behaviour', but showing the social historical context in which all sorts of positive evaluations had accreted around particular facets of behaviour and of cultural expression (and negative evaluations around others). As a 'commonsense ...