"This has everything you need for a really civilized process".
Describing a late-19th-century Manhattan art auction, for example, she writes: "The Knickerbocker crowd clung to their remaining old associations, which kept the growing ranks of the arrivistes, with their bourgeois respectability, at a safe distance, but death and taxes necessitated a civilized process by which to dispose of valued possessions.
It was a more civilized process than a live meeting, controlled by a telephone moderator who, with a touch of a key pad, could turn questioners on and off and let Rep. Eshoo speak.
"The Royal Menageries of Louis XIV and the Civilizing Process Revisited," French Historical Studies 35 (20122012), 226-46.
Relying heavily on the German sociologist Norbert Elias, who in the nineteen-thirties wrote a book on the subject titled "The Civilizing Process," Pinker argues that, over time, the new rules became so internalized that people's basic psychology changed.
In his masterful work, The Civilizing Process, Norbert Elias revealed how the "late medieval upper class" had not yet demanded, as later generations would, that "everything vulgar should be suppressed from life and therefore from pictures". For centuries now, defining incivility has been intimately connected with social rank, class status, political hierarchy, and relations of power.
For Baron it was an epochal event that, by looking backward to antiquity pointed forward to modernity, a movement which he embraced wholeheartedly, without the misgivings of a Jacob Burckhardt or a Max Weber, as a liberating, civilizing, progressive process.
The democratic process should civilize us all.
"We've got all kind of forces that are interfering and blocking the process of civilizing human beings and making them competent and responsible," he told The Syracuse Post-Standard in 1996.
Neither the secular Sanford nor the Catholic Leopold were interested in the Presbyterians' work; the latter was eager to have them make inroads into his newly acquired territory, both to begin the process of "civilizing" the natives and to legitimize his rule.
But their capability to be rapists—or, conversely, their incapability to be as civilized as citizens are—renders them illegalized regardless of if they undergo the process that would make them illegal.
