Civilisation and Informalisation Connecting Long-Term Social and Psychic Processes /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wouters, Cas (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Dunning, Michael (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Social sciences-Philosophy.; Emotions.; Globalization.; Social Theory.; Emotion.

Over the last century and a half, manners and formalities in the West have become less status-ridden, stiff and rigid. Debates around Norbert Elias' theory of civilising processes gave rise to questions of a change in direction of these patterns. The concept of informalisation, which describes...