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- Title
Meetings: the frontline of civilization.
- Authors
van Vree, Wilbert
- Abstract
The meetingization of society as a central aspect of civilizing processes is the theme of this article. This term refers to a long-term social process: as larger numbers of people become mutually dependent over larger areas and/or differences in power decrease between people, an increased number of problems needs to be solved through talking and decision-making in meetings which require an everincreasingly precise, more equal and more embracing regulation of impulses and short-lived affects. This 'compulsion to meet' is less well developed when the networks of mutual dependence are smaller and less stable, and/or the balances of power are more unequal.
- Subjects
CIVILIZATION; DECISION making; HUGGING; SOCIAL problems; SOCIAL processes
- Publication
Sociological Review, 2011, Vol 59, Issue 1, p241
- ISSN
0038-0261
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-954X.2011.01987.x