Civilisation and Informalisation

Cas Wouters is Professor Emeritus, Department of General Social Science, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.  Michael Dunning is Lecturer, Department of Media, Communications and Sociology, University of Leicester, UK.

• 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.