Stephen Mennell
Professor Emeritus of Sociology at University College Dublin, born 1944
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Stephen Mennell is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at University College Dublin. Mennell was educated at Huddersfield New College in West Yorkshire, and gained his BA in Economics in 1966 from St Catharine's College, Cambridge and his Doctorate at the University of Amsterdam. He was a Frank Knox Memorial Fellow at Harvard University. After returning from America, he taught at the University of Exeter, England, from 1967 to 1990, when he became Professor of Sociology in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Monash University in Australia, before returning to Europe as Professor at University College Dublin in 1993. . At UCD, along with his wife Barbara, he founded UCD Press on behalf of the university, and he also served as first Director of what is now the Geary Institute, a new social scientific research institute established with Irish government support.
Stephen Mennell's Published Works
Published Works
- The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations (2000) (1147)
- The Sociology of Food: Eating, Diet and Culture (1993) (527)
- All Manners of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the Present (1986) (406)
- All Manners of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France from the Middale Ages to the Present (1986) (291)
- The Germans: Power Struggles and the Development of Habitus in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. (1996) (271)
- Norbert Elias: An Introduction (1992) (242)
- All manners of food (1985) (165)
- DECIVILISING PROCESSES: THEORETICAL SIGNIFICANCE AND SOME LINES OF RESEARCH (1990) (136)
- The American Civilizing Process (2007) (123)
- On the Civilizing of Appetite (1987) (97)
- Norbert Elias: Civilization, and the human self-image (1989) (90)
- Norbert Elias on Civilization, Power, and Knowledge : Selected Writings (1998) (90)
- Elias on Germany, Nazism and the Holocaust : on the balance between civilizing and decivilizing trends in the social development of Western Europe (1998) (71)
- On the process of civilisation : sociogenetic and psychogenetic investigations (2012) (58)
- Television Politics: Its Uses and Influence (1970) (56)
- Norbert Elias, the civilizing process: Sociogenetic and psychogenetic investigations—an overview and assessment (2010) (56)
- An Essay on Time (2007) (46)
- The Sociology of Food: Eating, Diet and Culture. (1994) (45)
- The Globalization of Human Society as a Very Long-term Social Process: Elias's Theory (1990) (39)
- The Course of Human History. Economic Growth, Social Process, and Civilization (1996) (38)
- The Norbert Elias reader : a biographical selection (1998) (34)
- Sociological theory: Uses and unities (1974) (32)
- Classical readings in culture and civilization (1998) (28)
- Civilizing Processes—Myth or Reality? A Comment on Duerr's Critique of Elias (1997) (24)
- Alexis de Tocqueville: On Democracy, Revolution, and Society (1981) (21)
- Ill Met in Ghana (2009) (19)
- The Genesis of the Naval Profession (2007) (19)
- Ideology and Social Knowledge (1974) (17)
- Introduction: Significance and Theoretical Orientations (1992) (16)
- Ethnomethodology and the new Methodenstreit (1975) (15)
- Elias and the counter-ego: personal recollections (2006) (13)
- Food in the Division of Labour at Home (1992) (13)
- Human History and Social Processes (1991) (13)
- The Abstract Society: A Cultural Analysis of Our Time (1973) (12)
- Handing over the Torch: Intergenerational Processes in Figurational Sociology (2011) (12)
- Jewish Identity and Civilizing Processes (1996) (11)
- An Exceptional Civilizing Process? (2009) (11)
- Norbert Elias’s Lost Research: Revisiting the Young Worker Project (2017) (11)
- Interviews and Autobiographical Reflections (2013) (10)
- Prohibition: a Sociological View (1969) (10)
- What economists forgot (and what Wall Street and the City never learned) (2014) (10)
- Mozart and Other Essays on Courtly Art (2010) (10)
- Norbert Elias and figurational research : processual thinking in sociology (2011) (10)
- Theoretical Considerations on the Study of Cultural `Needs' (1979) (9)
- Français et anglais à table du moyen â nos jours (1987) (9)
- Comment on Haferkamp (1987) (9)
- Untold Stories: Protestants in the Republic of Ireland 1922-2002 (2003) (9)
- " Individual " action and its " social " consequences in the work of Norbert Elias (2009) (8)
- The Contribution of Eric Dunning to the Sociology of Sport: The Foundations (2006) (8)
- A Sociologist at the Outset of Group Analysis: Norbert Elias and his Sociology (1997) (7)
- `Figurational Sociology': Some Critical Comments on Zygmunt Bauman's, `The Phenomenon of Norbert Elias' (1979) (7)
- Discussing Civilisation and Informalisation: Criteriology (2013) (6)
- Discussing theories and processes of civilisation and informalisation: criteriology (2015) (6)
- Norbert Elias’s contribution to Andrew Linklater’s contribution to International Relations (2017) (5)
- Civilising offensives and decivilising processes: between the emic and the etic (2015) (5)
- Patterns of Food Consumption (1992) (5)
- The globalization of eating Opening Lecture at The 9th annual multidisciplinary Conference on Food Choice (2000) (5)
- 'On Modern Relationships: The Commandments of the New Freedom' (2003) (5)
- Social research and the politics of culture; Social research and the study of cultural "needs". In: Social research and cultural policy. (Edited by J. Zuzanek). (1979) (5)
- Supplements and Index to the Collected Works (2014) (5)
- Explaining American hypocrisy (2015) (4)
- AMERICA THROUGH THE ONE-WAY MIRROR (2011) (4)
- Twenty-five years on: Norbert Elias’s intellectual legacy 1990–2015 (2015) (4)
- The Pleasure of Your Company: A Socio-Psychological Analysis of Modern Sociability (1985) (4)
- The Sociological Study of History: Institutions and Social Development (1990) (4)
- L’étude comparative des processus de civilisation et de décivilisation (2003) (4)
- Civilizing Processes (2006) (4)
- Globalisation and the ‘American dream’ (2014) (4)
- Power, Individualism, and Collective Self Perception in the USA (2020) (4)
- Introduction to Norbert Elias's `On the Sociology of German Anti-Semitism' (2001) (4)
- `Technization and Civilization': Introductory Remarks (1995) (4)
- Civilisation and Decivilisation, Civil Society and Violence (1995) (3)
- Sociogenesis and Psychogenesis: Norbert Elias’s Historical Social Psychology as a Research Tradition in Comparative Sociology (2015) (3)
- The Impact on Food of Colonialism and Migration (1992) (3)
- Childhood and Society: Civilisation as Deferred Gratification (2018) (3)
- The Refiguration of Spaces and Methodological Challenges of Cross-Cultural Comparison (2021) (3)
- Autonomy and diversity in higher education (1972) (2)
- A Global Community of Self-Defense: Norbert Elias on Normativity, Culture and Involvement (2017) (2)
- Cultural Policy and Models of Society (1981) (2)
- National Character, History of (2015) (2)
- Realism and Reality Congruence: Sociology and International Relations (2012) (2)
- Globalization and Americanization (2015) (2)
- Parsons et Élias (1989) (2)
- SOCIOGENETIC AND PSYCHOGENETIC INVESTIGATIONS - AN OVERVIEW AND ASSESSMENT (2010) (2)
- Prospects for the History of food (1986) (2)
- A survey in England (1994) (2)
- Les connexions sociogénétiques entre l’alimentation et l’organisation du temps (1993) (2)
- The Social Bases of Democracy Revisited; or, Why Democracy Cannot Be Dropped in Bombs from B62s at 30,000 Feet (2017) (2)
- Introduction to ‘Power and Civilisation’ (2008) (2)
- Reflections on American Religiosity from an Eliasian Point of View (2017) (1)
- Comparative-historical sociology as antidote to the ‘crackpot realism’ of the twenty-first century (2017) (1)
- Conclusion: Commensality and Society (1992) (1)
- The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination.Alain Corbin (1987) (1)
- The Course of Human History: Civilization and Social Process: Civilization and Social Process (1996) (1)
- Apologia pro vita sociologica sua: social character and historical process, and why I became an Eliasian sociologist (2017) (1)
- PARSONS AND ELIAS (2010) (1)
- Norbert Elias, 1897-1990: Personal Reflections on a Remarkable Life (1990) (1)
- Elias and Popper (2018) (1)
- Some Political Implications of Sociology from an Eliasian Point of View (2021) (1)
- Trump's America: International Relations and the Construction of They-Images (2018) (1)
- Elias, ultra-realism and double-binds: Violence in the streets and the state (2020) (1)
- Why Democracy Cannot be Dropped in Bombs from B52s at 30,000 Feet: The Social Bases of Democracy Revisited (2016) (1)
- Tales from the archive (2013) (1)
- Words of the World (2005) (1)
- Eight contributions to social food studies in the Low Countries (2005) (1)
- HISTORY, NATIONAL CHARACTER AND AMERICAN CIVILISATION (2008) (1)
- Food Technology and its Impact (1992) (1)
- Introduction: Civilization, Culture and the Human Self-Image (2017) (1)
- Domestic Cookery, Home Economics and Girls' Education (1992) (1)
- Indigestion in the Long Nineteenth Century: Aspects of English Taste and Anxiety, 1800–1950 (2014) (1)
- The Development of Culinary Cultures (1992) (1)
- Concluding remarks. History, sociology, theory and the fallacy of misplaced abstractness (2010) (1)
- Ethnological Food Research (1992) (1)
- Alan Davidson: Some Personal Memories and an Unacknowledged Dispute. (2004) (1)
- Food in Total Institutions (1992) (1)
- Sociology Theory: Uses and Unities.@@@The Structure of Sociological Theory. (1976) (1)
- The Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Italy: Essays on Perception and Communication.Peter Burke (1989) (1)
- Cultural Needs and Municipal Initiative (1976) (1)
- On democracy, revolution, and society : selected writings (1982) (1)
- Beliefs and Practices About Food and Health: The Lay Perspective (1992) (1)
- Auf Mythenjagd in Amerika (2008) (1)
- The Public Sphere: Professional Cooks and Eating Outside the Home (1992) (1)
- Talcott Parsons et la Sociologie Americaine (1974) (1)
- Reply to Pels and Kilminster (1991) (1)
- Improving the Human Means of Orientation (2003) (0)
- The ‘Modelling of Speech’ in America and Britain (2018) (0)
- Cultural Policy and Cultural Development in Fourteen European Towns. (1975) (0)
- Sociology in Action@@@Contemporary Sociological Theory (1977) (0)
- Book Reviews (1997) (0)
- Ethnomethodology and the New " Methodenstreit " Author ( s ) : (2008) (0)
- Book Reviews (1984) (0)
- Book Reviews (1986) (0)
- Susan Pinkard. A Revolution in Taste: The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650–1800. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2009. Pp. xv, 317. $32.00 (2010) (0)
- The Past and the Future of Historical Sociology: An Introduction (2022) (0)
- Shortage and Plenty (1992) (0)
- Keith Thomas, In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England. (2019) (0)
- L'histoire, le caractre national et la civilisation amricaine (2010) (0)
- Introduction (2015) (0)
- Newsletter of the Norbert Elias Foundation 22 FROM THE NORBERT ELIAS FOUNDATION Collected Works of Norbert Elias in English (2004) (0)
- ELIAS E O COUNTER-EGO (2008) (0)
- Taking Elias to America (2008) (0)
- The political implications of figurational sociology (2018) (0)
- Through a glass, Darkly (2004) (0)
- Burke, Peter (1937–) (2015) (0)
- What is sociology? / Norbert Elias (1978) (0)
- Book Review: The System of Modern Societies (1973) (0)
- Book Review: The Development of Industrial Society in Ireland (1993) (0)
- Fat: A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life. By Christopher E. Forth. London: Reaktion Books, 2019. Pp. 358. £25.00. (2021) (0)
- Indigestion in the Long Nineteenth Century (2014) (0)
- Music and Power in Eighteenth-Century Court Society: Handel's Messiah and Protestant Ascendancy (2016) (0)
- Book Reviews (2004) (0)
- Constituency Labour Parties in Britain (1969) (0)
- Official Statistics and Social Interaction (1975) (0)
- Chapitre 4. Les anthropologues et l’agnosticisme du développement (2004) (0)
- J. A. Jackson (ed.), Social Stratification (Sociological Studies I.) (London: Cambridge University Press, 1968, 60s.). Pp. 238. (1970) (0)
- History is Not Bunk: Why Comparative Historical Sociology is Indispensable When Looking to the Future (2016) (0)
- Organisations and American Collective Self-Understanding (2017) (0)
- Norbert Elias, Civilising Processes, and Figurational (or Process) Sociology (2020) (0)
- Sociogenetic connections between food and timing (1996) (0)
- Inequality in Rich Societies (2014) (0)
- Book Reviews (1985) (0)
- Book Reviews : REASON AND CULTURE: THE HISTORIC RULE OF RATIONALITY AND RATIONALISM. Emest Gellner. Oxford, Blackwell, 1992. xiv + 193pp. $32.95 (paperback) (1993) (0)
- In What Ways Can Comparative–Historical Sociology Help to Improve the Workings of the Modern World? (2016) (0)
- 5 The Shaping of We-Group Identities in the African American Community (2014) (0)
- Laudatio for Richard Kilminster (2018) (0)
- Reviews : Axel Honneth and Hans Joas, Social Action and Human Nature, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1989, £27.50, paper £8.95, ix + 191 pp (1990) (0)
- The Refiguration of Spaces and the Refiguration of Epistemic Cultures: The Changing Balance of Involvement and Engagement in Fundamental and Applied Research (2021) (0)
- Leisure, culture and local government: A study of policies and provision in Exeter (1976) (0)
- Section thématique 44 Sociologie et histoire des mécanismes de dépacification du jeu politique (2009) (0)
- Explorations in Cultural Policy and Research. (1978) (0)
- Capitalist Society and Modern Sociology (1972) (0)
- The universities : pressures & prospects (1972) (0)
- LA SOCIOLOGIE DE NORBERT ELIAS (1993) (0)
- Guest Editors' Introduction: Comparative-Historical Sociology as Antidote to the ‘Crackpot Realism’ of the Twenty-First Century (2017) (0)
- Book Reviews (1990) (0)
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