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Overview"Charles Derber introduces and vividly explains the idea of a sociopathic society and why the idea has become necessary to understand today s world.Sociopathic society is rooted in governments and economies, not psychiatry. The book offers a new sociology of societies organized around antisocial values, which ultimately lead to societal and planetary self-destruction. Most of the sociopathic behaviors are perfectly legal and are perpetrated by governments, financial institutions, and corporate capitalism.Focusing on the United States, Derber connects the dots of Wall Street meltdown, guns and murder, uninhibited greed, the 1% and the 99%, a new crisis of unemployable surplus people, Hurricane Sandy and global warming, cheating scandals, and more including the war on democracy itself.Although the book brings together a breathtaking set of stories of a system run wild, it also offers hope, showing pathways for confronting and avoiding the many ways a society can commit sociocide. FEATURES OF THE BOOK""" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Charles DerberPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.612kg ISBN: 9781612054377ISBN 10: 1612054374 Pages: 307 Publication Date: 30 September 2013 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsHighly recommended. All levels/libraries. -CHOICE Charles Derber is one of our most astute and eloquent social critics. His political analysis is persuasive and is enlivened by graceful prose. -Howard Zinn In this lucid and informed study, Charles Derber breaks through the necessary illusions and shows how the United States is being turned into a sociopathic society, with control concentrated among intertwined economic, political, and military elites and reflections of its sociopathy rippling through every social stratum. But he also shows that there remains real hope that mass mobilization by currently fragmented social movements can reverse the sociopathic impetus. -from the Foreword by Noam Chomsky Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. -CHOICE Charles Derber is one of our most astute and eloquent social critics. His political analysis is persuasive and is enlivened by graceful prose. -Howard Zinn In this lucid and informed study, Charles Derber breaks through the necessary illusions and shows how the United States is being turned into a sociopathic society, with control concentrated among intertwined economic, political, and military elites and reflections of its sociopathy rippling through every social stratum. But he also shows that there remains real hope that mass mobilization by currently fragmented social movements can reverse the sociopathic impetus. -from the Foreword by Noam Chomsky Author InformationCharles Derber is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. He is the author of Corporation Nation, Hidden Power and Greed to Green. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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