Introduction: Sociology and its Discontents Chapter One: Working with Elias Chapter Two: Basic Concepts of (Con-)Figurational Sociology Chapter Three: Elias on Time, History and Sociology Chapter Four: Elias's "Central Theory": Western "Civilizing" Processes and Some of their Major Variations Chapter Five: "Civilization" as a Specific Transformation of Human Behaviour Chapter Six: The Development of Knowledge and the Sciences as Social Processes Chapter Seven: Problems of Method and Values in the Development of Sociological Knowledge Chapter Eight: Elias in Modern Sociology: an Enduring Legacy?