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Norbert Elias (1897–1990) achieved international recognition as a major sociologist only towards the end of his long life. As a German Jewish refugee in England, he did not even gain a secure academic post (at the University of Leicester) until he was 57. Apart from his magnum opus, Über den Prozess der Zivilisation [The Civilizing Process], which was published obscurely in 1939, all his other books and most of his essays were published after his formal retirement. These personal recollections date from that last highly productive part of his life, when he gradually attracted an extensive international following. They depict his foibles, some endearing, some that seemed perversely to stand in the way of his growing reputation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents information about the book "Science on Stage: Expert Advice as Public Drama," by Stephen Hilgartner. Hilgartner's book is great, not just because it is about an interesting subject, but because it reveals and celebrates the development of the field, the maturity of the field, it is Latourian, but it is not actor networks. It links up with classical sociology, the man himself, Erving Goffman. The book combines organizational analysis with discourse analysis impeccably, and throws in new literary forms for good measure. Most important are the questions that it raises a litany of some of the most significant issues for science studies. Everyone knows that knowledge, claims generated from research studies are important, these are High Science. Media science is important, press releases, science writing and so forth, this is Low Science. The subject of the study is the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Now it is considered to be part of the National Academies. This NAS is indeed a national resource, unbelievably understudied.

This article discusses the ideas presented by Peter Sloterdijk in his books "Sphären I" and Sphären II." It is noted that Sloterdijk's work about "Sphären" (spheres) can best be seen as an extended discussion about the possibilities of human togetherness. Almost 1700 pages are devoted to a variety of subjects that are all related to the question of whether there have been and still are conditions that encourage solidarity between people. Basing his argument on the Platonic idea that ideal forms of togetherness are related to a life in a perfect, geometrical sphere, Sloterdijk contends that human life, for all its historical or anthropological heterogeneity, has nearly always been lived within "spheres."

The author of this article comments on Pierre Bourdieu's book "The Weight of the World." It is said that the book can be considered as a political as well as a sociological reflection on the social divisions and sufferings of contemporary France. The book is a departure for Bourdieu for its emphasis on the extensive recording and transcription of spoken voices. The aim of the book is clearly to pronounce upon the condition of France in a definitive manner.

This section presents a list of books about the sociology of religion.

This section presents the international bibliography of sociology of religions for 1991.

This section presents a list of books on the sociology of religions.

This article discusses the book "Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process," by Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning. The important contribution to the development of the sociology of sport and leisure by Norbert Elias and his former student, colleague and devotee, Eric Dunning is centred upon their demonstration that the rise of modern forms of sport and leisure, with their emphasis on both tension release and the control of emotions, provide an ideal exemplification of the working out of the "civilizing process" from stress-tensions. What Elias and Dunning see their focus on leisure as achieving is a study of human beings in the round, in opposition to the work dominated perspectives hitherto conventional in sociology. One outcome of this is that they also present their work as an attempt to lay the foundations for a sociological theory of the emotions. Since Elias in his general work, What Is Sociology? (1970) also selects sports and games such as football or cards - to illustrate in a simplified form the basic character of social `figurations' as well as the claimed analytical `distinctiveness' of the figurational approach, it will be obvious that Elias and Dunning's entry into the sociology of sport is not merely an excursus.

This section presents a list of books about the sociology of religion.

This section presents an international bibliography of sociology of religion.

This section presents the list of books received for the 1972 issue of Social Compass, which deals with the sociology of religion.

This section presents books and articles about the sociology of religion.

This section presents a list of books on the sociology of religion.

This section presents a list of books on the sociology of religion.

This section presents books, articles and researches about the sociology of religion.

This section presents a bibliography on the sociology of religion.

This article presents a bibliography of publications on sociology of religion.

This section presents a list of books on the sociology of religion.

This section presents a list of books about the sociology of religion.

This section presents a bibliography of sociology of religions.

This section presents a list of books about sociology of religion.

The article presents a bibliography related to sociology. The book "Famille et habitation," by Chombart de Louwe, appears in two volumes. It would be wrong to suppose that the modern architect of dwellings and districts is a pure technician, that his planning and buildings are not based on a vision founded in many ways upon the needs and wishes of modern man. Whoever takes note of the two-volume work of Chombart will find that this view, still widespread among sociologists, is on the whole untenable. Interviews with a number of prominent artists, included in the present study give the lie to this view. The book "Der Pfarrer in der modernen Gesellschaft," is written by Gerhard Wurzbacher, Karl Martin Bolte, Rosemarie Klaus-Roeder and Trutz Rendt-Dorff. This book offers as its main feature an enquiry instituted at the Sociological Seminary of the University of Kiel in Kiel, Germany, in 34 Lutheran parishes in the rural area of Schleswig Holstein, into the social position of the Protestant pastor.

The article lists several books related to sociology which includes "Self and Social Change," by M. Adams, "Assembling Women: The Feminization of Global Manufacturing," by T. L. Caraway and "Busier Than Ever! Why American Families Can't Slow Down," by C. N. Darrah.

Lists books on public attitudes and mass media, published in the April 2004 issue of the journal "Public Understanding of Science."

This article presents information on the books by sociologist Norbert Elias published in the year 1983-86. Some of the books in English are "On the Sociogenesis of Sociology," in the year 1984, "The Loneliness of the Dying," in 1985, "Quest for Excitement; Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process," with Eric Dunning. The publication in German are "L'espace privé-`Privatraum' oder `privater Raum?" in Séminaire `A propos de I'histoire de l'espace privé' "Nachwort", in Meike Behrmann and Carmine Abate, "Die Germanesi," "Uber die Zeit" (an enlarged version of `An Essay on Time'), `Vorwort', in Horst-Volker Krumrey, Entwicklungsstrukturen von Verhaltensstandarden.

This section presents a bibliography on the sociology of religion.

This section presents a list of books about the sociology of religion.

Presents a list of books related to sociology. "The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society and Culture in Britain," by Bernard Porter; "Affirmative Action in the United States and India: A Comparative Perspective," by Thomas E. Weisskopf; "Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity," by Jeffrey Ogbar; Others.

This section presents a list of books on sociology and religion.

This section presents a list of books on sociology and religion.

This section presents the list of books received for the March 1971 issue of Social Compass, which deal with the sociology of religion.

This paper presents a list of books received in the 1970 issue of Social Compass.

This section presents the list of books received for the May 1968 issue of Social Compass, which deal with the sociology of religion.

This section presents a list of books on sociology and religion.

This section presents a list of books about the sociology of religion.

This section presents a list of books on religion and sociology.

This section present a list of books on sociology and religion.

This section presents information on the several books on sociology and religion.

This section provides information on several books on sociology. The book World, Nations, and Groups in Development, is a series of three lectures by Peter Kuenstler, M. T. Ramzi and J. Tinbergen. In this series, delivered on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Institute of Social Studies, the problems of development are discussed on the level of the community, the nation and the world. Kuenstler, tackling the first subject, speaks from the standpoint of the social worker. Ramzi discusses the problems of national development in terms of the techniques of public administration. Meanwhile, the book Jenseits vin Macht und Anarchie. Die Sozialordnung der Freiheit by Heinz-Hartmut Vogel is a study of the perennial problem of order versus liberty in society. The author claims that society need not fall a victim to either collectivism or anarchy, but that a higher synthesis of liberty and order is possible. Liberty itself may be seen as a principle of order. He proceeds to show this in the fields of government and economics as well as in the sphere of cultural life, taking as examples the present-day situation in the German Federal Republic. The argument in each case starts from highly abstract principles and goes on to practical applications rather too quickly.

This article focuses on the book "Contemporary Sociology," edited by Joseph S. Roucek. The book has over 1,200 pages and aims at reviewing not only U.S. sociology but that of the whole world. Fifty-six sociologists, all described as leading sociologists, have helped to compile this book. The builders include old familiar faces, many new unfamiliar ones, while readers are painfully struck by the absence of many new familiar ones. The book is in five parts. The frame is provided by researcher Carle C. Zimmerman, but is far from adequate even to suggest the scope of this sociological monster. In the second part the main themes of American sociology are outlined and in the third a number of fields of sociological application, although the autonomy of these two parts is a very moot point in view of their respective contents. In the fourth part one find the evolution of sociology outside the U.S. and this includes some excellent surveys. Finally, in the fifth part, P.A. Sorokin plays the organ of criticism so dear to him in his well-known vituoso style.

This article focuses on the book "Social Mechanisms: Studies in Social Theory," by Georg Karlsson. regards empirical research. By theory, Karlsson understand a symbolic model of only a limited number of aspects of social reality. He wishes to make these special aspects, interpreted as variables and their interrelations operationally applicable by devising mathematical models that must do full justice to the reality to which they point. Adding to this the view that sociology is a natural science, the author clearly joins the camp of the neopositivists and the followers of social scientist G.A. Lundberg. In doing so he dissociates himself from another treatment of sociological theory which has become traditional and which primarily classifies. Karlsson, however, gladly makes use of this tradition, but is nevertheless of the opinion that working intensively with only a few variables holds greater promise than the construction of extensive classifications. His main objective is to formulate theoretical models mathematically so that they approach reality as closely as possible. For this purpose he first suggests a general sociological frame in which various general models can be placed.

Lists books related to sociology and religion which appeared in the 2002 issue of "Social Compass."

Lists books published in the Volume 49, 2002 issue of the journal "Social Compass." American Catholics: Gender, Generation, and Commitment," by William V D'Antonio, James Davidson, Dean R. Hodge, and Katherine Meyer; "The Sociology of Religion. Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives," by Malcolm Hamilton; "Cultura e identidade," by Eccos.

Presents a list of several books on sociology. "Good Sex: Feminist Perspectives From the World's Religions," edited by Patricia Beattie-Jung, Mary E. Hunt, and Radhika Balakrishnan; "Seeker Churches: Promoting Traditional Religion in a Nontraditional Way," by Kimon Howland Sargeant; "Jews in the Center: Conservative Synagogues and Their Members," edited by Jack Wertheimer.

Lists books related to sociology and religion, which appeared in the 1999 issue of "Social Compass."

This section presents a list of books on sociology and religion.

This article presents a bibliography of books on the sociology of religion submitted to the journal Social Compass as of March 1975.

This section presents a list of books on the sociology of religion.

This section presents a bibliography of books on the sociology of religion submitted to the journal Social Compass as of June 1995.

The article presents books received about the sociology of religion, including La sociologie des religions by Sabino Acquaviva and Enzo Pace, Rito y pensar cristiano by Diego Irarrazaval and Disturbing the War--Melbourne Catholics and Vietnam by Val Noone.