The Retreat of Sociologists into the Present

Elias, Norbert

doi:10.1177/026327687004002003

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“…The rationale of the argument set forth in this article departs from the conventional tendency to focus either on contemporary events or on historically recent transformations-such as the post-18th century modernization of Western Europe or even the various other modernization projects pursued in societies around the globe after the 19th century. It takes to heart Elias's [36] long-standing criticism of the "retreat of the sociologists into the present" by offering a global-historical perspective that transcends conventional interpretations of modernization and religion. The glocal turn thus recasts the research agenda in terms of the broader relationship between sacred and profane-instead of the relationship between sacred and secular, which has been the conventional research question pursued in sociology of religion.…”

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Forms of Religious Glocalization: Orthodox Christianity in the Longue Durée

Roudometof

2014

Religions

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This article advocates a "glocal turn" in the religion-globalization problematic. It proposes a model of multiple glocalizations in order to analyze the historically constituted relationship between world religions and local cultures. First, the conceptual evolution from globalization to glocalization is discussed with special reference to the study of the religion. Second, the necessity for adopting the perspective of the longue durée with regard to the study of Eastern Orthodox Christianity is explained. Third, an outline of four forms of religious glocalization is proposed. Each of these forms is presented both analytically as well as through examples from the history of Eastern Christianity (from the 8th to the 21st century). It is argued that this approach offers a model for analyzing the relation between religion, culture and society that does not succumb to the Western bias inherent in the conventional narrative of western modernization and secularization.

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Forms of Religious Glocalization: Orthodox Christianity in the Longue Durée

Roudometof

2014

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“…Elias 1987). For det tredje kan Elias' vaerker til tider forekomme ufordøjelige, fordi de gennem for sociologien tilsyneladende perifere eller forholdsvis partikulaere genstandsfelter (som døden, sport eller Mozart) belyser mere generelle eller almene samfundsmaessige forhold og tendenser, men man skal vedvarende erindre, selv når man laeser de mindre kendte tekster af Elias, at han vedvarende arbejdede på at forfine, raffinere og eksemplificere sit figurationssociologiske udgangspunkt.…”

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Norbert Elias - om et sociologisk fænomens forsinkede anerkendelse i anledningen af udgivelsen af et attenbinds samleværk

Jacobsen¹

2007

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“…As Guy (2003) notes, popular ignorance alone is not a sufficient explanation for the level of hostility directed towards Roma. In order to develop an understanding of the position of Roma as Europe's perennial "outsiders" (Vermeersch, 2012;Thornton, 2014), then, a longer-term perspective is required which emphasizes the impact of social processes on the nature of interdependent relations (Elias, 1987a(Elias, , 1987b(Elias, , 2000. Such a standpoint has been lacking from recent research on Roma in Europe with some critical scholars advocating a break with the prevalent trend of policy-centric research (see van Baar, 2012).…”

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Europe’s perennial ‘outsiders’: A processual approach to Roma stigmatization and ghettoization

Powell

Lever

2015

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This paper draws on the theoretical work of Norbert Elias and Loïc Wacquant in seeking to understand the stigmatized and marginalized position of the Roma population within Europe. The paper argues that the persistent persecution of Roma, reflected in social policy, cannot be understood without reference to long-term social processes, which shape the nature of the asymmetric power relations between Roma and non-Roma. Elias's theory of established-outsider relations is applied at the intra-state European level in arguing that Roma constitute a cross-border "outsider" group; with their intense stigmatization explained and perpetuated by a common set of collective fantasies which are maintained through complex group processes of disidentification, and which result in Roma being seen as of lesser human worth. Wacquant's theoretical concept of the "ghetto" is then drawn upon to show how the manifestations of stigmatization for the stigmatized are at once psychological, social and spatial. The paper suggests that the synthesis of the two theorists' relational, theoretical concepts allows for an approach that can expose the way in which power is exercised within and through group relations. Such an approach emphasizes the centrality of the interdependence between Roma and non-Roma, and the fluctuating power balance that characterises that relationship across time and space. The paper concludes that, while existing research focused on policy and outcomes is useful in understanding the negative contemporary experiences of Roma populations, they need to be understood in the context of wider social processes and historical continuities in seeking to elucidate how these processes shape policies and contribute to social and spatial marginalization.

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The Retreat of Sociologists into the Present

Cited by 218 publications

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Forms of Religious Glocalization: Orthodox Christianity in the Longue Durée

Forms of Religious Glocalization: Orthodox Christianity in the Longue Durée

Norbert Elias - om et sociologisk fænomens forsinkede anerkendelse i anledningen af udgivelsen af et attenbinds samleværk

Europe’s perennial ‘outsiders’: A processual approach to Roma stigmatization and ghettoization

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