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"The sociologist, in his (and her) quest for understanding,
moves through the world...
without respect for the usual lines of demarcation."
- Peter L. Berger

"If you're not here to better understand the world
and help make it a better place...then
just what are you doing here?"
- Benet Davetian

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Benet Davetian, Ph.D.
Background and Research Interests

'THE SEVENTH CIRCLE' (Ronsdale Press)

New Book

'CIVILITY - A CULTURAL HISTORY' by Benet Davetian
608 pages (University of Toronto Press, April 2009)

Advance Praise for CIVILITY:

"Benet Davetian’s scintillating tour de force fills a gaping void in the history of ideas.
If you are serious about the civility-civilization connection, you will want your
well-thumbed copy of Norbert Elias’ tome to share a place on your nightstand
with this newcomer destined to last."

• P.M. Forni, Professor, Johns Hopkins University.
Author of Choosing Civility: The 25 Rules of Considerate Conduct

"Civility: A cultural History is a tour-de-force: a work of dazzling scholarship
on this core concept of our social life, ranging from the Middle Ages to the present,
and covering France, England and the United States. Spitting, line-up etiquette, toilet hygiene,
good manners, and the relativity of politeness are all discussed as they change and vary
in this most engaging and poetically written work.
Davetian is as much at home with “The Art of Courtly Love,” the Enlightenment,
the rise of individualism, the Victorian gentleman and gentlewoman,
as with contemporary teens and narcissism.It’s absolutely fascinating!"

• Anthony Synnott, Professor of Sociology, Concordia University.
Author of The Body Social; Shadows: Issues and Social Problems in
Canada; co-author of Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell.

Benet Davetian's Civility will take you on a compelling social and psychological journey|
through the history of civility, from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Essential reading for anyone interested in international standards and customs of courtesy,
Davetian's perspective on the cross-cultural impact of civility practices is not only thorough
and insightful, but also encouragingly optimistic.

* Louise Fox, etiquette coach and Director of The Etiquette Leader.

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Sociologists Without Borders

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The Civility Institute

Rex Murphy's CBC Cross-Country Checkup Programme on Civility, January 4, 2009

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WRITING RESOURCES

SELF AND SOCIETY COURSE

CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY COURSE

CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY COURSE

COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS COURSE

MEDIA AND SOCIETY COURSE

The Civility Institute

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SCHOOLS & ASSOCIATIONS

Sociology Departments Around the World

Canadian Sociological and Anthropology Association

American Sociological Association

British Sociological Association

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PUBLISHERS

Blackwell Publishers

Routledge

Oxford University Press

Princeton University Press

University of Chicago Press

Prentice-Hall

McGraw-Hill

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