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Episode 3. Communicative Figurations

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In this episode, Giselinde Kuipers, Robert van Krieken and Andreas Hepp depart somewhat from the work of Elias himself, and instead ask questions that may strike the listener as considerably more contemporary than the forks and etiquette books that most people think of when Elias is mentioned. This episode asks: How can Eliasian sociology help us to understand celebrity society, and the increasing mediatization of contemporary society?

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