Society of Individuals by Norbert Elias

By Norbert Elias

Initially released in 1991 and now reissued via Continuum overseas, this publication comprises 3 sections. the 1st, written in 1939, was once both disregarded of Elias's most famed booklet, The Civilizing approach, or used to be written in addition to it. half 2 used to be written among 1940 and 1960. half three is from 1987. the total booklet is a examine of the original dating among the person and society--Elias's best-known subject and the root for the self-discipline of sociology.

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The form of the individual thread changes if the tension and structure of the whole net change. Yet this net is nothing other than a linking of individual threads; and within the whole each thread still forms a unity in itself; it has a unique position and form within it. This is no more than an image, rigid and inadequate like all images of this kind. But as a model for thinking about human networks it is sufficient to give a somewhat clearer idea of the manner in which a net of many units gives rise to an order which cannot be studied in the individual units.

There are societies - the Australian aborigines, for example in which the basic structure of the relations between people hardly changes perceptibly over centuries. There are other forms of communal life which contain a peculiar urge to transcend themselves in their mode of communal living without any extrasocial causes needing to be involved. They are directed towards other forms of interpersonal relationships and institutions, whether or not these forms are actually attained. They are in the narrower sense of the word historical.

Only the longer-sighted perspective gives a certain security to the decisions taken under the pressure of short-term impulses. But it in turn needs to be balanced and complemented by that which is perceived better and more easily in the moment of action itself. If what strikes us most of all from the elevated viewpoint is the rigorous way in which the historical flow is constantly urged on in a particular direction, the person engaged in action within the flow is much more aware of how varied often if not always - are the paths by which structures and tensions of one kind are able to turn themselves into structures of a different kind.

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