He analyzes the treatment of mortality in secular society in The Loneliness of the Dying.
He analyzes the treatment of mortality in secular society in The Loneliness of the Dying. In his monumental What is Sociology?, he introduces his idea of figurational analysis, when people create spontaneous new forms of social interaction. In The Court Society, he studied the evolution of ceremony in the French court and its relation to the decline of the aristocracy. In his most famous work, he examined the development of restraining mores and etiquette and its relation to the emergence of the state as a system of control. For 10 points, identify this sociologist, remembered for The Civilizing Process.
He analyzes the treatment of mortality in secular society in The Loneliness of the Dying.
Norbert {Elias}