Norbert Elias and Empirical Research

1. Introduction
François Dépelteau, Tatiana Savoia Landini

2. Therapeutic Culture and Self-Help Literature: The “Positive Psychology Code”
Helena Béjar

3. Elias and Literature: Psychogenesis of Brazil in French Books for Young People
Andréa Borges Leão

4. The Civilization of Capital Punishment in France
Emmanuel Taïeb

5. Civilizing and Decivilizing Characteristics of the Contemporary Penal Field
John Pratt

6. Jurists, Police, Doctors, and Psychologists: Discussing Sexual Violence in Twentieth-Century Brazil
Tatiana Savoia Landini

7. Civilizing “Life Itself”: Elias and Foucault
Dominique Memmi

8. The New Style: Etiquette during the Exile of the Portuguese Court in Rio de Janeiro (1808–1821)
Jurandir Malerba

9. Principal Elements of the Ottoman State-Formation Process through an Eliasian Perspective
İrem Özgören Kιnlι

10. The Metamorphoses of the Dacha: Some Processual Thinking
François Dépelteau, Ronan Hervouet

11. Revisiting Relations between the Sexes in Sport on the Island of Ireland
Katie Liston

12. Germany’s Special Path to Where? Elias in the Eurozone
Matt Clement

13. Norbert Elias and the Enigma of Time
Jiří Šubrt

14. Comparing Norbert Elias and Mikhail Bakhtin: The History of Laughter and the Civilizing Process
Thomas Maxwell Shore

Keywords: Social Sciences, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Social Theory, Sociology, general