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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... Modern Societies (1971) in draft, finding its depiction of America as the 'lead society' irritating but not demonstrably wrong. Other members of that star-studded department lit long-delayed time fuses which have made more positive ...
... modern period — other examples being Latin America, South Africa, Canada and Australia. He suggested that such societies continue to exhibit the characteristics of Europe at the time they broke away, and that 'when a part of a European ...
... modern West most like to see themselves is as 'civilized'. The connotations of collective selfapprobation which have become attached to the word 'civilization' certainly complicate the use of the concept of 'civilizing process' as a ...
... modern readers who have been brought up to think of the settlers as egalitarian. Correct behaviour and its relation to social rank appear to have become more of a problem in Europe at the time of the Renaissance. In the feudal society ...
... 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 delinquents in much the same way as Elias's account ...