Sociologist Elias (1897-1990) left his native Germany in 1933 and after some time as a refugee, settled into a university position in England. This first of 18 volumes presents all the known texts tha
Sociologist Elias (1897-1990) first published the nine essays on human symbol making in 1989 as three installations in the journal Theory, Culture and Society. The essays were posthumously collected i
Elias (1897-1990) was a premier sociologist who studied with Alfred Weber, brother of Max. Written over three decades and newly annotated for this edition of volume II, these seven essays are joined b
Recognized as one of the most important works of sociology in the last century, On the Process of Civilisation has been influential and widely discussed across the whole range of the humanities and so