The work may be read in the context of what Norbert Elias called the "civilizing process."

In the old days it might have been called the civilizing process.

George Washington formulated a policy to encourage the "civilizing" process.

This "civilizing" process notwithstanding, indirect rule had the ultimate advantage of guaranteeing the maintenance of law and order.

The civilizing process occurred as a result of advances in technology.

It's so sudden and rapid that it seems too hard to explain with a gradual, civilizing process.

The surface of Terra consisted of a wild, primeval landscape that did not demonstrate the slightest sign of any civilizing process.

He formulated a policy to encourage the "civilizing" process, and Thomas Jefferson continued it.

For the first time in Howard's fiction, the civilizing process, with its decadent and decaying phases, is carried out to its inevitable end.

The civilizing process, in which psychoanalysis plays its small part, tames the infant's unruliness.