Norbert Elias and John L. Scotson – The Established and the Outsiders (1965)
The Established and the Outsiders is considered a key work of figurational sociology and a seminal study for explaining social inequality and exclusion at the group level. Building on Elias’ theory of civilization, Elias and Scotson analyze how, in a small English community, differences in power and mechanisms of denigration develop and become entrenched between