There is an unbridgeable controversy between the functionalist sociologist who anchors his theories on society and the group, and the existentialist who bathes his thoughts on the individual. Durkheim and Parsons, as well as many contemporary American sociologists, are adjustment based in the sense that all those individuals who rock the boat even if they are creative innovators would be labelled deviant or mad. The existentialists, from Kierkegaard to Buber, regard the individual as the focus of life; they see philosophy and society as at best a curbing control-structure and at worst coercing, stigmatizing and ostracizing. The present volume treads in the giant footsteps of Albert Camus who saw the absurd as the conflictual encounter between the individual and society. This Second, Revised and Expanded Edition of Society and the Absurd attempts to overcome this deep sociological controversy by investigating absurdity through the prism of an interdisciplinary theory of personality.

Society and the absurd

Politics & Social Sciences

Shoham, S. Giora

Philosophy

Blackwell

Myth of Tantalus: A Scaffolding for an Ontological Personality Theory

Univ of Queensland Pr

This edition draws broadly from mythology, anthropology, sociology and literature, and concludes that, in spite of criticism against the labeling frame of reference, Professor Shoham's pioneering work of 1970 stands largely vindicated.  (Law & Criminal Studies Crime, Criminals, Stigmatisation, Deviance, Social Control, Labeling Studies;)

The mark of Cain: The stigma theory of crime and social deviance

University of Queensland Press

Sex as bait: Eve, Casanova, and Don Juan

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Violence of Silence: The Impossibility of Dialogue

Social Sciences

Transaction Pub

Nothing like this book anywhere. Provides a balanced, innovative account of the psychology of crime, drawing on current and past scientific research.

A Primer in the Psychology of Crime

Seis, Mark C.

Willow Tree Pr

<p>#Mathematical annotation by Joseph A. Uphoff, Jr.#Includes bibliographical references.</p>

The Promethean and Epimethean Continuum of Art

Uphoff, Joe

Arts & Photography

Arjuna Library Pr

This volume incorporates empirical and theoretical studies from all realms of human violence. The first part presents a bio-psycho-social study of violent prisoners. The probalistic research on the violence of the prisoners is supplemented by a situational analysis of a "danse-macabre" which leads to the act of violence or the violence avoidance cues which lead away from the violent act. Sexual violence is analyzed within the context of the rapist-victim dyad; violent drivers are presented as a special case on non-normative recklessness; inner-directed violence is presented in a study of suicide; and finally, a model of macro-violence is presented examining the holocaust as a symbiotic entanglement between nazis and jews.

Violence: An Integrated Multivariate Study of Human Aggression

Ashkenasy, J. J. M.

Rahav, G.

Chard, F.

ADDI

Addad, M.

Dartmouth Pub Co

Analysis of Greek, German, Christian and Jewish components in western civilization in a comprehensive attempt to explain the perpetrators and the victims of the Holocaust of World War II. Author uses all the social sciences in an interdisciplinary study of the Nazis as a gang of thieves and murderers whose success and ideology was grounded in the sources of western civilization.

Valhalla, Calvary & Auschwitz

History

World

Bloch Pub. Co

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