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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... habitus' — are shaped within the structure and culture of the societies in which they live; and, on the other, that the structure and culture of societies are the product of, and continuously re-enacted through, the activities of ...
... Habitus.8 Elias defined habitus as 'second nature' — it refers to that level of habits of thinking, feeling and behaving which are in fact learned from early childhood onwards, but which become so deeply ingrained that they feel 'innate ...
... habitus in which a similar long-term curve of the civilizing process can be discerned among Western European people. Theologians, philosophers and social theorists have speculated for centuries about whether aggression and violence are ...
... habitus may survive, or be recreated, in parts of modern societies where levels of danger and incalculability remain high and where 'civilizing' pressures are weak and inconsistent (see chapter 6). Today, some criminologists describe ...
... habitus. He argued that as chains of interdependence become longer and webs denser, a gradual shift takes place in the balance between external constraints and self-constraints in the habitual steering of people's behaviour. The social ...