埃利亚斯是德国著名社会学家，《文明的进程》是埃利亚斯的成名之作，出版后轰动西方世界，成为畅销书。本书提供了一种新的历史研究方法：不仅研究社会经济，而且考察人的情绪气质和思维方式的变迁；不仅重视重大事件，也从小处着手，探讨人的行为举止和日常生活，以小见大。 作者将历史学、政治学、心理学、经济学、种族学、人类学和社会学等熔为一炉，使这部作品成为20世纪不可多得的一本百科全书式的人文经典读本。Elias is a well-known German sociologist. The Process of Civilization is Elias's famous works, after being published, this book made a stir in the western world, and became a bestseller. This book provides a new historical research method which not only researches social economy, but also studies mood and temperament of persons and the change of way of thinking, not only attaches great importance to major events, and also starts with small things to explore people's behavior and daily life. This author combines history, political science, psychology, economics, race, anthropology and sociology, and makes this works become an encyclopedic cultural classic book rare in the 20th century.