Norbert Elias's extended theory of community: From established/outsider relations to the gendered we–I balance

Graham Crow; Margaret Laidlaw

doi:10.1177/0038026119829772

Norbert Elias's extended theory of community: From established/outsider relations to the gendered we–I balance

Graham Crow
, Margaret Laidlaw

School of Social and Political Science

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Abstract

Norbert Elias and John Scotson’s analysis of the interconnection between positive and negative community identities in The Established and the Outsiders is well-known. Elias’s subsequent writing about community offers a more rounded analysis, going beyond established/outsider configurations by exploring community’s gendered character and the forces involved in the ‘we–I balance’ that counteract the pervasive process of individualization. Elias’s use of personal pronouns to reveal how community identity (‘we’) relates not only to outsiders (‘they’) but also to an individual member (‘I’) of communities is central to his extended theory of community.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	568-584
Number of pages	17
Journal	Sociological Review
Volume	67
Issue number	3
Early online date	7 Feb 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026119829772
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2019

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community
Elias
insider/outsider
gender
we-l balance

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The final version of this paper has been published in The Sociological Review, 67/3, May/2019 by SAGE Publications Ltd, All rights reserved. © Graham Crow and Maggie Laidlaw, 2019. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0038026119829772
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