Civilisation and informalisation: connecting long-term social and psychic processes

Abstract

Part One: The Book -- 1. Informalisation: An Introduction; Cas Wouters -- 2. Informalisation and Evolution: Four Phases in the Development of Steering Codes; Cas Wouters -- 3. Informalisation and Emancipation of Lust and Love: Integration of Sexualisation and Eroticisation Since the 1880s; Cas Wouters -- 4. Informalisation of Rituals in Dying and Mourning: Changes in the We-I Balance; Cas Wouters -- 5. Informalisation, Functional Democratisation and Globalisation; Cas Wouters -- 6. Universally Applicable Criteria for Analysing Social and Psychic Processes: Nine Tension Balances, One Triad; Cas Wouters -- Part Two: The Selection -- 7. Informalisation Through the Lens: Black & White and the Development of Photography as Art; Jonathan Fletcher -- 8 -- Informalisation and Brutalisation: Jihadism as a Part-Process of Global of Integration and Disintegration Processes; Michael Dunning -- 9. Informalisation and Sport: The Case of Jogging/Running in the USA (1960-2000); Raúl Sánchez-García -- 10. Informalisation and Integration Conflicts: The Two-Faced Reception of Migrants in the Netherlands; Arjan Post -- 11. Formalisation and Informalisation of Meeting Manners; Wilbert van Vree -- 12. Informalisation Sociological Theory and Social Diagnosis; Richard Kilminster