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Informalization : Manners and Emotions Since 1890.

Following the successful Sex and Manners, this highly original book explains the sweeping changes to twentieth-century regimes of manners and self. Broad in scope and deep in analytic reach, it provides a wealth of empirical evidence to demonstrate how changes in the code of manners and emotions in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wouters, Cas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Sage Publications, 2007.
Colección:Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Following the successful Sex and Manners, this highly original book explains the sweeping changes to twentieth-century regimes of manners and self. Broad in scope and deep in analytic reach, it provides a wealth of empirical evidence to demonstrate how changes in the code of manners and emotions in four countries (Germany, Netherlands, England and the US) have undergone increasing informalization. From the growing taboo toward the displays of superiority and inferiority and diminishing social and psychicogical distance between people, it reveals an 'emancipation of emotions' and the new repres.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (283 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781848606111
1848606117
9781446214848
1446214842