ISBN:
9781848606111
,
1848606117
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xii, 270 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Theory, culture & society
Parallel Title:
Print version Informalization
DDC:
395.0904
Keywords:
Etiquette History
;
20th century
;
Emotions Social aspects
;
History
;
20th century
;
Etiquette History 20th century
;
Emotions Social aspects 20th century
;
History
;
Etiquette History 20th century
;
Emotions Social aspects 20th century
;
History
;
REFERENCE ; Etiquette
;
Emotions ; Social aspects
;
Etiquette
;
Informeel gedrag
;
Etiquette
;
Emoties
;
Sociale aspecten
;
Konvention
;
Gefühlsausdruck
;
Umgangsformen
;
Umgangsformen ; Deutschland ; Geschichte 20. Jh
;
Umgangsformen ; Grossbritannien ; Geschichte 20. Jh
;
Umgangsformen ; USA ; Geschichte 20. Jh
;
Umgangsformen ; Niederlande ; Geschichte 20. Jh
;
Emotion ; Geschichte
;
Umgangsformen
;
Gefühl
;
History
;
Electronic book
;
Electronic books History
Abstract:
Following the successful Sex and Manners, this highly original book explains the sweeping changes to twentieth-century regimes of manners and self. Broad in scope and deep in analytic reach, it provides a wealth of empirical evidence to demonstrate how changes in the code of manners and emotions in four countries (Germany, Netherlands, England and the US) have undergone increasing informalization. From the growing taboo toward the displays of superiority and inferiority and diminishing social and psychicogical distance between people, it reveals an 'emancipation of emotions' and the new repres
Description / Table of Contents:
IntroductionManners: theory and history -- Social mixing and status anxieties -- Decreasing social and psychic distance -- increasing social integration and identification -- Introductions and friendships, forms of address, and other differences in national habitus formation -- The spiral process of informalization: phases of informalization and reformalization -- Connecting social and psychic processes: third nature.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-256) and index. - Description based on print version record
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