He described how the division of labor affected people's need for risky pastimes in a work written with Eric Dunning, The Quest for Excitement.
He depicted the formation of the British naval profession as institutionalized through the conflict between sailors and soldiers in The Genesis of the Naval Profession. He described how the division of labor affected people's need for risky pastimes in a work written with Eric Dunning, The Quest for Excitement. He expounded on the ways in which evolving networks of interdependent individuals influence and are influenced by social processes, an idea that became known as "figurational sociology." In his best known work he claimed that in Europe, injunctions against violence influenced the adoption of table manners. FTP, name this sociologist best known for The Civilizing Process.
He depicted the formation of the British naval profession as institutionalized through the conflict between sailors and soldiers in The Genesis of the Naval Profession.
Norbert Elias