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The Civilizing Process stands out as Norbert Elias' greatest work, tracing the "civilizing" of manners and personality in Western Europe since the late Middle Ages by demonstrating how the formation of states and the monopolization of power within them changed Western society forever.

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诺伯特·埃利亚斯（Norbert Elias, 1897 - 1990），是20世纪德国著名的社会学家，被誉为20世纪百科全书式的人物和21世纪的社会学家，像他这般拥有横跨两个世纪盛誉的学者非常罕见。