Adam Podgorecki, Adam Podg-Recki

Social Oppression

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Podgorecki examines oppression that results from pressures inside social groupings, large and small, effected by different normative and conformity-inducing mechanisms designed to regulate human behavior. Podgorecki provides a critical examination of the empirical findings in the most important and imaginative experimental studies of various types of oppression (including those by Milgram and Zimbardo), as well as data collected in natural settings like asylums or concentration camps. New interpretations of those findings furnish a new angle of vision requiring modification of the existing typologies of individual adaptation including the best known typology elaborated by Merton (conformity, ritualism, innovation, withdrawal, rebellion). Podgorecki goes on to trace regularities in historically recorded patterns of behavior of people living under totalitarian and post-totalitarian conditions. Finally, based on these insights and on the recent developments in sociology of law, a new theory of law is advanced, which utilizes as its important axis a conceptual differentiation between the official and intuitive law. Recommended for scholars of sociology, social psychology, political science, and especially criminology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780313290244
• ISBN-10: 0313290245
• Artikelnr.: 25564871

Autorenporträt

Adam Podgórecki

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Preface Introduction Oppression from Within Behavior under
Oppression Totalitarian Pathology of Law A Concise Theory of
Post-Totalitarian Oppression Law as Petrified Oppression Conclusions
Bibliography