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Norbert Elias (born June 22, 1897 in Wroclaw, Poland; died August 1, 1990 in Amsterdam) was a European sociologist whose work focused on the relationship between power, behavior, emotion, and knowledge over time. He influenced the Figurational Sociology or Process Sociology research traditions within sociology.
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Biography
Elias was born on June 22, 1897 in Wroclaw, Poland (then called Breslau) to Hermann and Sophie Elias. His father was a businessman in the textile industry and his mother a homemaker. He fought in the Prussian army during World War I and then completed his Ph.D. under Richard H�nigswald at the Johannesgymnasium in Breslau in 1924. A jew, Elias' career was delayed when he fled Nazi Germany in 1933. After two years in Paris, he fled to England where he remained as a refugee for most of his life. Not until 1954 did he again attain a university position at Leicester. He began an active retirement in 1962.
Published works
- �ber den Prozess der Zivilisation (1939)
- The Established and the Outsiders (1965)
- The Court Society (19??)
- What is Sociology? (19??)
- The Loneliness of the Dying (19??)
- Involvement and Detachment (19??)
- An Essay on Time (19??)
- The Civilising Process (19??)
- Quest for Excitement (19??)
- Humana Conditio (19??; subtitled "Observations on the Development of Mankind in the
- Forty Years since the Second World War"; not available in English)
- The Society of Individuals (19??)
- Los der Menschen (1987; poetry),
- Studien �ber den Deutschen (19??)
- The Symbol Theory (199?)
- Reflections on a Life (199?)
- Mozart: Portrait of a Genius (199?)