Casparus Adrianus Petrus Maria "Cas" Wouters (born 1943 in Sint-Michielsgestel) is a Dutch sociologist. He studied sociology in Amsterdam. At present[when?] he is a researcher at Utrecht University, affiliated with the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR).
In the 1960s, Wouters studied sociology at the University of Amsterdam with Professor Joop Goudsblom. Wouters wrote his dissertation Informalization about the obvious changes of the western customs and manners in the 20th century. He describes the changing behavior of different generations and summarizes this in his theory of informalization. The question about, how these changes in manners and regulations of emotions can be interpreted and explained is in its core the same that Norbert Elias addressed in his most important work The Civilizing Process (Über den Prozess der Zivilisation) regarding the changes between the 15th and 19th century. Wouters uses Elias’ theory as a framework while critically observing and analyzing it. The dissertation was published in 1990 as Van minnen en sterven and translated into German as Informalisierung.
Cas Wouters was strongly influenced by and contributed to the sociological domain of process or figurational sociology.[citation needed] His theory of informalisation implies that a long-term process of formalisation – of formalising manners and disciplining people – had been dominant from the sixteenth up to the last quarter of the nineteenth century, after which a process of informalisation has prevailed: behavioural and emotional alternatives increased, together with demands on emotion management or self-control. Wouters proceeded to elaborate this theoretical perspective in a variety of studies of the late-nineteenth and twentieth-century social and psychic processes, focusing mainly on emotion regulation, dying and mourning, sexuality, and the emancipation of women and children. In 2004 Wouters published Sex and Manners, Female Emancipation in the West 1890-2000. His systematic and empirical approach has been an important contribution to this field of study[citation needed] and is highly appreciated throughout the ranks of his fellow workers and students.[citation needed]
Cas Wouters has written articles in English, Dutch, Spanish and German on changes in relationships between men and women, the dying and those who live on, and on related, more general social and psychic processes.
Selected bibliography
Books
1983 (with Bram van Stolk; 2nd ed. 1985): Vrouwen in tweestrijd - Tussen thuis en tehuis: relatieproblemen in de verzorgingsstaat, opgetekend in een crisiscentrum. Deventer: Van Loghum Slaterus. Translated into German as Frauen im Zwiespalt (Suhrkamp 1987).
1990: Van minnen en sterven. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker. It was translated into German as Informalisierung (Westdeutscher Verlag, 1999).
2004: Sex and Manners: Female Emancipation in the West 1890–2000. London: Sage. (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society). It was translated into Dutch as Seks en de seksen (Bert Bakker 2005).
2007: Informalization: Manners and Emotions since 1890. London: Sage.
Articles
2009: "The Civilizing of Emotions: Formalization and Informalization". pp.169–194 in Theorizing Emotions: Sociological Explorations and Applications, edited by D. Hopkins, J. Kleres, H. Flam, and H. Kuzmics. New York & Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Campus Verlag.
2004: "Changing regimes of manners and emotions: from disciplining to informalizing". pp.193–211 in The Sociology of Norbert Elias, edited by Steven Loyal and Stephen Quilley. Cambridge University Press.
2002: "Giving the finger". Pp. 369–374 in [Theoretical Criminology, 6 (3)]. London: SAGE Publications.
2002: "The Quest for New Rituals in Dying and Mourning: Changes in the We–I Balance". pp.1–27 in Body & Society, 8 (1). London: SAGE Publications.
2002: "What is Love?" on "What is Love? Richard Carlile's Philosophy of Sex" by M.L. Bush. pp.77–86 in Body & Society, 7 (4)[permanent dead link]. London: SAGE Publications.
2001: "The Integration of Classes and Sexes in the Twentieth Century: Etiquette Books and Emotion Management". pp.50–83 in Norbert Elias and Human Interdependencies, edited by Thomas Salumets. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's.
1999: "Changing Patterns of Social Controls and Self-Controls: On the Rise of Crime since the 1950s and the Sociogenesis of a "Third Nature"". Pp.416-432 in British Journal of Criminology, 39 (3). Oxford University Press.
1999: "Balancing Sex and Love since the 1960s Sexual Revolution". pp.187–214 in Love & Eroticism, edited by Mike Featherstone. London: SAGE Publications.
1998: "How Strange to Ourselves Are Our Feelings of Superiority and Inferiority". pp.131–150 in Theory, Culture & Society, 15 (1). London: SAGE Publications.
1997: "Changes in the "lust balance" of love and sex since the sexual revolution: the example of the Netherlands". pp.228–249 in Emotions in Social Life: Critical Themes and Contemporary Issues, edited by Gillian Bendelow and Simon J. Williams. London: Routledge.
1995 (with Richard Kilminster): "From Philosophy to Sociology: Elias and the Neo-Kantians" pp.81–120 in Theory, Culture & Society, 12 (3). London: SAGE Publications.
1989: "The Sociology of Emotions and Flight Attendants: Hoschild's Managed Heart". pp.95–123 in Theory, Culture & Society, 6 (1). London: SAGE Publications.
1987: "Developments in Behavioural Codes Between the Sexes; Formalization of Informalization, The Netherlands 1930-1985". pp.405–429 in Theory, Culture & Society, 4 (2/3). London: SAGE Publications.
1986: "Formalization and Informalization: Changing Tension Balances in Civilizing Processes". pp.1–19 in Theory, Culture & Society, 3 (2). London: SAGE Publications.
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