Damnation and Deviance: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Failure

ISBN-13: 9781138521933 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 232 str.

Mordechai Rotenberg

Opis

The Calvinist view that man is predestined to be among the elect or the damned has profoundly influenced not only our views of criminals and deviants, but also the theoretical basis of correctional methods and psychotherapeutic techniques

Spis treści

1: The Protestant Ethic vs. the “People-Changing” Professions; 2: Puritan Damnation and Deviance; 3: “Differential Insensitivity” and the Myth of the “Psychopath”; 4: The Antilabeling Crusade and Self-labeling; 5: Empirical Explorations of Indicative Labeling; 6: “Contingent Being” and the “Action-Reaction” Convergence Model; 7: “Alienating Individualism” and “Reciprocal Individualism”; 8: Retrospective vs. Prospective Therapy

O autorze

Mordechai Rotenberg