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social science subjects > sociology > sociology of health, illness and the body > body (sociology) > civilizing processes
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civilizing processes  

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  • The theory of civilizing processes was developed by Norbert Elias in the 1930s to describe and explain the generation of higher standards of various forms of conduct in the context of unplanned but structured changes in state formation and lengthening chains of social interdependencies. The idea of civilized conduct may seem a strange companion to popular understandings of consumer culture, when the latter phrase is often associated with hedonism, individualism, and excess. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture; Civilizing Processes]

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