Elias

Question 1

Figurations

Answer 1

Shifting networks of people with fluctuating asymmetrical power balances

Question 2

Explain kitsch

Answer 2

Relationship societal and aesthetic forms
Is there still a coherent style during capitalism? Or just indiv.
Pre emptive kitsch: not avoiding but embracing kitsch

Question 3

Comments with wouters theory of informalization

Answer 3

Manners became relaxed, subtle and varied -emancipation of emotions - trickle up through democratization of education and widening circles of identification
- third nature: reflexivity

Question 4

7 characteristics cultural theory of elias

Answer 4

1 people live in figurations
2 each has balance of power
3 each acts as a social force
4 when it changes, behavior, consciousness and emotions of people change
5 changes come from within figuration
6 complex processes; evade control and understanding of stakeholders: unintended consequences
7 knowledge of these processes require sociogenetic and psychogenetic research