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Social Pathology in Comparative Perspective: The Nature and Psychology of Civil Society
By Jerome Braun
308 pages
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- Praeger Publishers
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- Westport, CT
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- 1995
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Synopsis
This book builds on the notion that social pathology differs from society to society and that the sense of character that develops in each society is specific to different perceptions of interpersonal obligations and responsibilities in that society. The book deals with the cultural and psychological effects of social change relevant to the study of modernity and postmodernity. It deals with particular social issues such as war and conflict, juvenile delinquency, problems of social ecology and religious ...
This book builds on the notion that social pathology differs from society to society and that the sense of character that develops in each society is specific to different perceptions of interpersonal obligations and responsibilities in that society. The book deals with the cultural and psychological effects of social change relevant to the study of modernity and postmodernity. It deals with particular social issues such as war and conflict, juvenile delinquency, problems of social ecology and religious revivalism, all reflecting the stresses of modern life and social change within very concrete, particular environments. Braun and his contributors show how individual character and civil society evolve together to create culturally specific trajectories of social change.
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- Introduction 1
- Conclusion 37
- Part I Character in Modern Society 45
- 1: Personality, Pathology, and Modernism in Max Weber 64
- 2: Is Character Any Longer a Meaningful Concept? 69
- 3: The Natural Ecology of Personal Relationships 92
- 4: Social Pathology and Social Ecology 95
- Part II Social Pathology in Comparative Perspective 115
- 5: Juvenile Delinquency in Germany, South Africa, and America: Explorations in National Character 117
- Notes 131
- 6: Schizophrenia: A Transcultural View 133
- 7: Social Isolation in Chinese and American Culture 145
- 8: Complicated Mourning and Mobilization for Nationalism 172
- 9: The Psychology of War 198
- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- Introduction 1
- Conclusion 37
- Part I Character in Modern Society 45
- 1: Personality, Pathology, and Modernism in Max Weber 64
- 2: Is Character Any Longer a Meaningful Concept? 69
- 3: The Natural Ecology of Personal Relationships 92
- 4: Social Pathology and Social Ecology 95
- Part II Social Pathology in Comparative Perspective 115
- 5: Juvenile Delinquency in Germany, South Africa, and America: Explorations in National Character 117
- Notes 131
- 6: Schizophrenia: A Transcultural View 133
- 7: Social Isolation in Chinese and American Culture 145
- 8: Complicated Mourning and Mobilization for Nationalism 172
- 9: The Psychology of War 198
- Part III Civil Society 199
- 10: Responses to Nihilism: Religious Revivals and Political Activism in the United States, Japan, India, and Germany 201
- Notes 232
- 11: Modernity and Politics 235
- 12: Social Disorder and Revival Movements: Some Opinions 247
- Appendix A: Why Doing Social Science is So Hard 259
- Appendix B: Social Cohesion in Democratic and Authoritarian Societies 263
- Appendix C: the Sense of Self 267
- Selected Bibliography 271
- Index 287
- About the Editor and Contributors 291