Benet Davetian

Civility (eBook, PDF)

A Cultural History

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Davetian's rich, multi-dimensional review of civility from 1200 to the present day provides an in-depth analysis of the social and personal psychology of human interaction and charts a new course for the study and understanding of civility and civil society.

DavetianBenet:

Dr Benet Davetian is chair and associate professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Prince Edward Island (Canada) and director of the Civility Institute. He is listed in Canada's Who's Who for his accomplishments in literature and the social sciences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442687660
• Artikelnr.: 48945325

Autorenporträt

Dr Benet Davetian is chair and associate professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Prince Edward Island (Canada) and director of the Civility Institute. He is listed in Canada‘s Who‘s Who for his accomplishments in literature and the social sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Genealogy of Western Courtesy and Civility
From Barbarism to Courtly Manners
Secular Civility in the Renaissance
Shifts in Identity and Awareness: Protestantism and the Enlightenment
French Court Society, the French Revolution, and the Paradoxes of French
Civility
England and the Victorian Ethic
The American Experience: Democracy and Informal Civility
Part II: The Rise of the Late-Modern American Self
Conformity, Opposition, and Identity
Part III: The Multifaceted Anatomy of Civility
Towards a Cultural Sociology of Civility
Part IV: Contemporary French, American, and English Civility and
Interaction
A Comparative Field Study of France, America, and England
Part V: Summing Up
Civilizing and Recivilizing Processes
Bibliography
Index