Civility - A Cultural History by Benet Davetian

CIVILITY
A Cultural History

Benet Davetian, Ph.D.
Copyright 2006, Benet Davetian

The topics of civility and incivility are very much in the forefront of public debate. This present 2-part 550-page work by sociologist Benet Davetian provides one of the most comprehensive works available on the topic since the publication of Norbert Elias's seminal work, The Civilizing Process. It is written to be useful to academics, upper-division students, and the general public. The first part of the work traces the development of civility, from medieval to contemporary times, in France, England and the United States of America. The second part of the work offers a comprehensive discussion of the social psychology of civility and why cultures continue to possess varying civility traditions and practices. Based on a comparative study of civility practices this work makes an original contribution to social and cultural theory and to the growing fields of cross-cultural sociology and anthropology. 550 pages in PDF typeset chapters.

Dr. Benet Davetian is a sociologist and professor at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. He holds a doctorate from the University of Sussex (UK). He is listed in Canada's Who's Who for his contributions to social studies and literature. His published works include The Seventh Circle, awarded the Mordecai Richler Prize for the Best Book of the Year. He has held a British Association of Commonwealth Universities Doctoral Fellowship, as well as fellowships from the Social Studies and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs (CCEPA). Dr. Davetian's areas of scholarship and teaching include classical and contemporary social theory, collective behaviour and social movements, self and society, sociology of knowledge, and comparative social studies. He is founder and director of The Civility Institute, an institute that promotes international multi-disciplinary studies and conferences in civility and civil society. In his spare time, he hosts the Charlottetown Conversation Salon. His travels and field research have taken him on four continents; this cross-cultural expertise makes this present volume a seminal work in the study of civility across national boundaries.

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