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Informalization : manners and emotions since 1890 / Cas Wouters

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Wouters, Cas
Published
Los Angeles, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2007.
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1 online resource (xii, 270 pages) : illustrations
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English.
Contents
Introduction -- Manners: 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.
Summary
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.
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9781848606111 (electronic bk.)
1848606117 (electronic bk.)
9781446214848 (ebook)
1446214842 (ebook)
9786612560491
6612560495
1282560492
9781282560499
9781412935753 (hard)
141293575X (hard)
9781412947183 (pbk.)
1412947189 (pbk.)
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text file
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-256) and index.
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