Abstract: The text analyzes the democraticity of decision-making processes on local level public affairs in Cuba, emphasizing the examination of citizens’ capacities to influence the conditions that sustain decision-making and public debates. The study reveals the mutual dependencies between elements that constitute an autocratic consolidation of p...
Objective: This article analyzes the reception of Norbert Elías’ psychogenetic perspective within Steven Pinker’s so-called evolutionary psychology. It studies how Pinker, unlike other exponents of Eliasian theory, not only finds the German sociologist’s theory relevant in relation to the figurational position, but especially regarding his way of c...
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In this article, I translate the analysis of the production of space as a social process into a processual methodology sensitive to its political aspects. This requires taking actors as well as the different socio-spatial logics into account. One of the main transformations since the 1970s—the historical period under scrutiny in the analysis of the...
This chapter intends to unfold and to discuss the links Norbert Elias wove between the process of civilization and the progression of functional democratization in the light of the transformations that violent conflicts have undergone since the end of the 19th century. It is argued that these violent conflicts, regularly described as part, or signs...
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This thesis examines the patterns of development found in Japanese society to establish how structural and psychological changes led to the Japanese seeing themselves as âmore civilisedâ than their forebears and neighbouring countries in the nineteenth century that contributed to the breakdown of their civilisation in the twentieth century. Whi...
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Neste artigo revisitamos algumas das principais obras de Norbert Elias com objetivo de apresentar notas introdutórias à sua sociologia configuracional, enfatizando a originalidade e a consistência teórica de seu método e teoria do conhecimento para o estudo de objetos e das relações sociais. Para tanto, sistematizamos a apresentação do estudo em qu...
