Norbert Elias and Erving Goffman

Civilised-Dramaturgical Bodies, Social Status and Health Inequalities

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ID20052288
AuthorsPeter Freund (Montclair State University, corresponding author)
Year2015
Pages158-173
Publication date2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueThe Palgrave Handbook of Social Theory in Health, Illness and Medicine (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137355621_10
OpenAlexW2337428025
ISBN9781137355621
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited29

This chapter explores the relevance of the works of Norbert Elias and Erving Goffman for understanding some connections between ‘mindbodies’, society, health and well-being. After brief biographical sketches of Elias and Goffman, Elias’ work on the civilising process is discussed along with his ‘psychosomatics’ in which he suggests neuro-hormonal pathways between ‘mindbodies’ and society. The increasingly internalised forms of social control, characteristic of civilised societies, are embodied in the form of what Elias called the ‘habitus’

Inequality · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Mathematics · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Sociology and Norbert Elias

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