Bøker av Richard Kilminster

In a hyper-individualistic age and in the face of narrowly focused, policy-oriented research, this book revisits the humanistic world-view that is integral to Norbert Elias's preeminent figurational-process sociology, with its aim of increasing the fund of sociological knowledge that has the human condition as its horizon.

By controversially turning away from the current debates which surround 'social theory', The Sociological Revolution provides an historical analysis of the 'profound burden' of sociology and its implications today.

Explains Elias' sociological radicalism and braces us for its implications. This book presents an analysis of Elias' work "The Symbol Theory" in the light of the developments in archaeology, anthropology and evolutionary theory.