1st Edition
Damnation and Deviance The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Failure
By Mordechai Rotenberg
Copyright 2003
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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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. In this provocative and original volume, Mordechai Rotenberg examines the impact of Protestant doctrine on Western theories of deviance. He explores the... Read more
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
Biography
Mordechai Rotenberg
