The postemotional bully. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Stjepan G. Mestrovic.
• Authors: Meštrović, Stjepan Gabriel
• Contents: CHAPTER: 1 THE PROBLEM; Defining bullying; Force versus obligation: Revisiting Marcel Mauss’s The Gift; The forced gift—the connection to bullying; CHAPTER 2: MODERNITY AS A BULLY; Auguste Comte: positivism at war with theology; Charles Darwin, emotions, and cooperation; Durkheim’s application of Darwin’s insights; Ferdinand Tonnies on the extinction of community; Max Weber on the disappearance of charisma; William James and the bullying inherent in vicious abstractionism; The Chicago School of sociology and the movement from primary to secondary groups; David Riesman and the society of sameness; The battle hymn of the lonely crowd; The Buffy television series as the Shakespearean drama of the postemotional age; George Ritzer and the McDonaldization of society; McDonaldization as the postemotionalization of Puritanism; Postemotional charisma; CHAPTER 3: POSTMODERNISM AS NEGATION OF THE GIFT; Deconstruction: tear down, but do not rebuild; Decentering: everything and everyone is marginalized; The Marxist basis for postmodernism; Walter Benjamin: the loss of aura, and simulacra; The postmodern theme of disenchantment; Truths are cut down to size; CHAPTER 4: POSTEMOTIONALISM ILLUSTRATED; Revisiting David Riesman and Marshall McLuhan on oral, written, and screen image societies; Postemotionalism in Dostoevsky’s “The Grand Inquisitor”; Dostoevsky’s Notes From the Underground; The narrative in the film, Idiocracy, as an example of postemotional society; The pharmaceutical control of emotions in The Giver and Equilibrium; CHAPTER 5: ABU GHRAIB AND POSTEMOTIONAL SOCIETY; The digital photographs, or screen image element; The postemotional carry-over of Zimbardo’s theory; Postemotional soldiers as “fungible assets”; The lawyers as fungible assets, and postemotional law; The postemotional smile; Holding back emotions, and reliance upon techniques; Postemotional manipulation; The scripted, postemotional society; CHAPTER 6: DRIVEN TO SUICIDE BY BULLYING; Immediate desiccation of emotional import; Disavowal by Johnny’s parents; Postemotional suicide prevention; Definition of hazing; What is the conduct of corrective training?; Jury selection: over as soon as it started; Racial slurs postemotionalized into nicknames and terms of endearment; The social disorganization at the outpost; CHAPTER 7: BEATEN TO DEATH; Postemotional groupthink; The dysfunctional social system that will not self-correct; Postemotional anomie; The postemotional panopticon; CHAPTER 8 CONCLUSIONS: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?;
• Publisher Details: London Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (124 pages.)
• Subjects: 302.34/3; Bullying -- Case studies; Hazing -- Case studies; Bullying; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1473910358; 9781473910355; 9781473910973; 1473910978; 9781473910980; 1473910986
• Related ISBNs: 1473907802; 9781473907805
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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