Social discipline, democracy, and modernity: Are they all uniquely 'European'?

• Main Author: Regilme, Salvador Santino F., Jr.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2012
• Subjects: Civilization, Modern—European influences; Europe—Civilization; Democracy; Political Science
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/8694
• Institution: De La Salle University

Historically, narratives about the grandiosity of absolute monarchy and social discipline dominated the research agenda on European absolutism, as in the case of the renowned works of Norbert Elias. Yet, less emphasis was made about the various levels of powers existing outside the central monarchy...