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On the pragmatics of social theory. The case of Elias's "On the Process of Civilization"
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This paper proposes a new approach to the study of sociological classics. This approach is pragmatic in character. It draws upon the social pragmatism of G.H. Mead and the sociology of texts of D.F. McKenzie. Our object of study is Norbert Elias’s On the Process of Civilization. The pragmatic genealogy of this book reveals the importance of taking materiality seriously. By documenting the successive entanglements between human agency and non-human factors, we discuss the origins of the book in the 1930s, how it was forgotten for thirty years, and how in the mid-1970s it became a sociological classic. We explain canonization as a matter of fusion between book’s material form and its content, in the context of the paperback revolution of the 1960s, the events of May 1968, and the demise of Parsons’ structural functionalism, and how this provided Elias with an opportunity to advance his model of sociology.
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Elias, Nobert, 1897-1990 History of the book Canon formation Pragmatic sociology
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Silva, F. C. da, Bucholc, M. (2016). On the pragmatics of social theory. The case of Elias's "On the Process of Civilization". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 52 (4), 392-407 (First published: 22 August 2016).