The Trouble with Evil: Social Control at the Edge of Morality
A broadly based analysis of good and evil grounded in examination of the conceptual, philosophical, and theoretical bases of the study of evil within the social sciences.Edwin Lemert investigates the possibility that a consideration of evil will provide new power to explanations of deviance. He links classic studies of witchcraft and sorcery to the wider problem of social control. The search for prototypical evil (a view that Lemert rejects) turns to an investigation of sorcery because sorcery involves selfish interest and intentions on the part of the sorcerer, who uses cryptic means to harm a victim that he/she dislikes.The author then exam…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7914-3244-0
- EAN: 9780791432440
- Produktnummer: 16260010
- Verlag: State Univ Of New York Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 185 S.
- Masse: H22.7 cm x B15.1 cm x D1.2 cm 263 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 263
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