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Norbert Elias was a German sociologist who later became a British citizen. He is especially famous for his theory of civilizing/decivilizing processes.



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✵ 22. June 1897 – 1. August 1990
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The Civilizing Process
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Famous Norbert Elias Quotes

“I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one's own dignity.”

Norbert Elias

Closing statement on a Dutch TV interview http://www.vpro.nl/programma/beschaving/afleveringen/22058443/items/22149355/.
Lessen van Elias, Norbert Elias, portret van een socioloog, VPRO, april 23 1975/ 2005

“A heightened control of the affects, developed in society and learned by the individual, and above all a heightened degree of autonomous affect control, was needed in order for the world-picture centred on the earth and the people living on it to be overcome by one which, like the heliocentric world-picture, agreed better with the observable facts but was at first far less satisfying emotionally; for it removed human beings from their position at the centre of the universe and placed them on one of many planets circling about the centre.”

Norbert Elias book The Civilizing Process

Source: The Civilizing Process (1939), p. 477

“If the present study has any significance at all, this results not least from its opposition to this mingling of what is and what ought to be, of scientific analysis with ideals.”

Norbert Elias book The Civilizing Process

Source: The Civilizing Process (1939), p. 468

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