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dc.contributor.authorRyan, Kevin
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-18T15:17:28Z
dc.date.available2015-09-18T15:17:28Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationMalesevic, S. and K. Ryan, 2012. 'The Disfigured Ontology of Figurational Sociology: Norbert Elias and the Question of Violence', Critical Sociology 39 (2), pp. 165-181.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10379/5230
dc.description.abstractThis article scrutinises Norbert Elias s figurational sociology byfocusing on its ontological foundations. The analytical spotlight is onthe inherent tension between Elias s stance of normative neutralityand detachment, his naturalistic ontology, and an implicitcommitment to progress. We show how Elias s treatment of socialrelations of inclusion and exclusion reveal a commitment tocognitive and moral development, with negative properties of thesocial consigned to the past, and we examine the consequences ofthis when it comes to explaining the dark sides of the present, andin particular the social sources of organised violence in modernity.It is our contention that Elias ontology incorrectly posits violence asthe absolute Other of civilisation, so that his theory of the CivilisingProcess fails to adequately account for the persistence andproliferation of warfare in the modern age.en_US
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dc.subjectCivilising processen_US
dc.subjectFigurational sociologyen_US
dc.subjectNorbert Eliasen_US
dc.subjectSocial theoryen_US
dc.subjectViolenceen_US
dc.subjectWaren_US
dc.titleThe disfigured ontology of figurational sociology: Norbert Elias and the question of violenceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.date.updated2015-07-31T10:50:27Z
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dc.local.contactKevin Ryan, Dept. Of Pol. Science & Soc., Room 108, Block T, Nui Galway. 3111 Email: kevin.ryan@nuigalway.ie
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