Internet Exercises

Exercise 1

Go to www.usyd.edu.au/su/social/elias/eliasframe.html. First, select "Papers"; then click on the link to Robert van Krieken's "Beyond the 'problem of order': Elias, habit and modern sociology" and answer the following questions:

a. What argument is the author making about dualism in sociology?

b. What is Norbert Elias's role in the formation and usage of dualisms?

c. What is the intellectual history of sociological dualisms, and in what ways have they distorted or enhanced sociological theory generally?

Exercise 2

Go to www.civnet.org/journal/issue7/ftjscott.htm. After reading the article "Manners and Civil Society," by Janny Scott, answer the following questions:

a. According to the author, how far back does the interest in manners date?

b. What are some of the real-world consequences of a focus on manners that the author discusses?

c. What is the relationship between manners and power?