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Author: Norbert Elias (Late of Universities of Leicester, Ghana, Frankfurt and Bielefeld) ,
Richard Kilminster
Publisher: University College Dublin Press
Imprint: University College Dublin Press
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Volume: v. 13
Dimensions:
Width: 23.40cm
, Height: 0.30cm
, Length: 15.60cm
Weight: 0.567kg
ISBN: 9781906359102
ISBN 10: 1906359105
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 05 September 2011
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Elias' work is intriguing and has the capacity to stimulate sociologists...The subject matter of The Symbol Theory is both expansive and deep ' - Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counselling <p> <p> Readers will be well rewarded. In its attempt at a grand synthesis The Symbol Theory moves way beyond sociology in any strict sense...Few readers will fail to be impressed by the breadth of vision and the clarity of expression. For many, the book may supply a welcome, undogmatic antidote to skepticism ' - Contemporary Sociology
"Elias' work is intriguing and has the capacity to stimulate sociologists...The subject matter of The Symbol Theory is both expansive and deep""' - Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counselling ""Readers will be well rewarded. In its attempt at a grand synthesis"" ""The Symbol Theory moves way beyond sociology in any strict sense...Few readers will fail to be impressed by the breadth of vision and the clarity of expression. For many, the book may supply a welcome, undogmatic antidote to skepticism""' - Contemporary Sociology"
Elias' work is intriguing and has the capacity to stimulate sociologists...The subject matter of The Symbol Theory is both expansive and deep ' - Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counselling Readers will be well rewarded. In its attempt at a grand synthesis The Symbol Theory moves way beyond sociology in any strict sense...Few readers will fail to be impressed by the breadth of vision and the clarity of expression. For many, the book may supply a welcome, undogmatic antidote to skepticism ' - Contemporary Sociology
Author Information
NORBERT ELIAS (1897-1990) was one of the greatest sociologists of the twentieth century. He studied in Breslau and Heidelberg and served as Karl Mannheim's assistant in Frankfurt. In exile after 1933, first in France and then in Britain, he wrote his magnum opus The Civilizing Process. At its ill-timed publication in 1939, it received little note. Only after his formal retirement in 1962 was the book reissued in German and translated into many other languages. That, and a flood of other books and essays, made him an international intellectual celebrity towards the end of his long life. His whole oeuvre is now appearing in new scholarly editions in the Collected Works in English. RICHARD KILMINSTER is an Honorary Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Leeds.
