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Routledge
359 Pages
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Routledge
359 Pages
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Routledge
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Societies consider certain institutions and activities as central, proper, and visible, while others are defined as peripheral, deviant, and private. Vilhelm Aubert takes us to the "hidden" societies: the privacy of love, the secrecy of the underground, the remoteness of a ship, the isolation of the ill, the retirement from social life into sleep, and similar fascinating topics.Vilhelm Aubert, a... Read more
1: The criminal and the sick; 2: Legal justice and mental health *; 3: Competition and dissensus: two types of conflict and of conflict resolution *; 4: Predictability in life and in science; 5: Chance in social affairs; 6: Sleep: a sociological interpretation * 1; 7: A note on love; 8: A total institution: the ship; 9: On the social structure of the ship; 10: Secrecy: the underground as a social system
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J. E. Meade
