A Nation of Meddlers

ISBN-13: 9780367314248 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019

Dennis Brissett;Charles Edgley

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There was a time when the phrase ?It's none of your business? meant something. Not anymore. A boorish and persistent army of meddlers, equipped with righteous indignation and a formidable array of theories and technologies, has made almost everyone's business its own. Meddling in the lives of others is now the republic's most visible obsession. Fro

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America: A Nation of Meddlers -- The Roots of Meddling -- Running Scared: The Appeal and Acceptance of Meddling -- The Ideologies of Meddling -- Types of Meddlers -- Marketing Meddling -- Meddling and the Social Bond -- Conclusion: Toward a Less Meddlesome Society

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Charles Edgley is professor of sociology at Oklahoma State University. Dennis Brissett (deceased) was professor in the Department of behavioural Sciences at the University of Minnesota at Duluth.