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Manufacturing Social Distress [electronic resource] : Psychopathy in Everyday Life / by Robert W. Rieber.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Path in Psychology, Published in Cooperation with Publications for the Advancement of Theory and History in Psychology (Path)Publisher: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1997Edition: 1st ed. 1997Description: XV, 221 p. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781489900531
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 150 23
LOC classification:
  • BF1-990
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Contents:
Introduction: The Lay of the Land and the Currents of the River -- 1. Social Breakdown and the Social Distress Syndrome -- 2. The Prince of Darkness and the Heart of Darkness -- 3. War and Social Distress: Images of the Enemy -- 4. The Banks, Media, and Social Distress -- 5. Dreams Money Can Buy -- 6. Terrorism, Organized Crime, and Social Distress -- 7. Being “Good” in “Bad” Places: Toward a Principled American Lifestyle -- Notes.
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: Toward the Psychology of Malefaction This is a book about human wickedness. I would like to identify two obstacles in the path that this book seeks to traverse. One obstacle is an inappropriate scientism; the other is an inappropriate moralism. There is a kind of scientism that prevents us from seeing that human beings are responsible for what happens on the planet. It is a view that, in the name of science, downplays the role of human beings as agents in what takes place. This view is often expressed in a paradigm that regards human conduct as the "dependent variable," while anything that impinges on the human being is considered the "independent variable." The paradigm further takes the relationship between the dependent and independent variable to be the result of natural law. It charac­ teristically ignores the possibility that individual or collective deci­ sion or policy, generated by human beings and not by natural law, is and can be regulatory of conduct.
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Introduction: The Lay of the Land and the Currents of the River -- 1. Social Breakdown and the Social Distress Syndrome -- 2. The Prince of Darkness and the Heart of Darkness -- 3. War and Social Distress: Images of the Enemy -- 4. The Banks, Media, and Social Distress -- 5. Dreams Money Can Buy -- 6. Terrorism, Organized Crime, and Social Distress -- 7. Being “Good” in “Bad” Places: Toward a Principled American Lifestyle -- Notes.

Toward the Psychology of Malefaction This is a book about human wickedness. I would like to identify two obstacles in the path that this book seeks to traverse. One obstacle is an inappropriate scientism; the other is an inappropriate moralism. There is a kind of scientism that prevents us from seeing that human beings are responsible for what happens on the planet. It is a view that, in the name of science, downplays the role of human beings as agents in what takes place. This view is often expressed in a paradigm that regards human conduct as the "dependent variable," while anything that impinges on the human being is considered the "independent variable." The paradigm further takes the relationship between the dependent and independent variable to be the result of natural law. It charac­ teristically ignores the possibility that individual or collective deci­ sion or policy, generated by human beings and not by natural law, is and can be regulatory of conduct.

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