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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Civilizing Process"”.
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The 'Civilizing Process' and the Politics of Conservative Womanhood in America, 1890-1930
… how these women utilized the concept of the civilizing process to advocate for a more conservative society. Harking back to Victorian constructs, conservative women of this era sought to establish hierarchies of race, gender and morality, deeming these hierarchies central to the preservation …
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A Civilized Society? The Culture of Punishment in Canada
… of online public commentary. Drawing on the de/civilizing process theories of Norbert Elias (1939/2000) and John Pratt (1998, 2002, 2011), it is argued that there is a noticeable dominance of de-civilizing discourses and themes found within the legislation and comment boards. While historical …
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ON THE BUSINESS OF SOCIALITY: A FIGURATIONAL EXPLORATION OF THE ETIQUETTE INDUSTRY IN POST-REFORM CHINA
… developments along China’s modernization process that has been recharting the relationship between the individual, society, and the state. The state-led “civilizing” initiatives for embodying civility to produce modern citizens are discussed in Chapter One by comparing the official …
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The labors of Hercules: embodied learning and male domestication in early modern culture and literature
… theorists translate learning and cognitive processes into the materialistic, embodied masculinist terms that their male aristocratic readers would understand and therefore value. Unlike the curricular-ideological analyses of traditional early modern education scholarship that ignore …