Dennis Smith, Norbert Elias, Michel Foucault, "The Civilizing Process" and "The History of Sexuality": Comparing Norbert Elias and Michel Foucault, Theory and Society, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Feb., 1999), pp.

After attending Acton County grammar school, in 1956 he entered what was then University College Leicester, where he attended Norbert Elias’s introductory lectures in sociology.

Daniel Gordon, The Canonization of Norbert Elias in France: A Critical Perspective, French Politics, Culture & Society, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Spring 2002), pp. 68-94 ...

In The Loneliness of the Dying, the sociologist Norbert Elias argues that in contemporary society, older persons are “pushed more and more behind the scenes of social life,” a process that ...