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Author Wouters, Cas

Title Informalization : manners and emotions since 1890 / Cas Wouters
Published Los Angeles, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 270 pages) : illustrations
Series Theory, culture & society
Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
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
Analysis etiquette
sociale gebruiken
social customs
emoties
emotions
tendensen
trends
sociale klassen
social classes
sociale structuur
social structure
sociale status
social status
psychologie
psychology
hedendaagse samenleving
contemporary society
vs
usa
engeland
england
nederland
netherlands
duitsland
germany
westerse wereld
western world
Customs
Gewoonten
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-256) and index
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Subject Etiquette -- History -- 20th century
Emotions -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century
REFERENCE -- Etiquette.
Emotions -- Social aspects
Etiquette
Konvention
Gefühlsausdruck
Umgangsformen
Informeel gedrag.
Etiquette.
Emoties.
Sociale aspecten.
Umgangsformen -- Deutschland -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
Umgangsformen -- Grossbritannien -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
Umgangsformen -- USA -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
Umgangsformen -- Niederlande -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
Emotion -- Geschichte.
Umgangsformen.
Gefühl.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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