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Authors: Mordechai Rotenberg
ISBN-13: 9780765805386, ISBN-10: 0765805383
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Date Published: November 2003
Edition: 2nd Edition
Acknowledgments | ||
Transaction Introduction | ||
Introduction | ||
I | The Sociological Perspective | |
1 | Salvation, Monism, and Social Contraction | 3 |
2 | The Social Contract and Social Contraction | 17 |
3 | Contractional Alterism vs. Contractual Altruism | 28 |
4 | Structural Deviance and the Mono vs. Multiple Ideal-labeling System | 42 |
5 | Social Crisis and the Mono vs. Multiple Ideal-labeling System | 52 |
II | The Social-Psychological Perspective | |
6 | Alter-centered Individualism and Interpersonal Contraction | 69 |
7 | The Prussian-Oedipal Father vs. the Maggid's Contracting Father | 81 |
8 | Assertiveness Training for "I or Thou" Behavior | 89 |
9 | Alterism, Individual Freedom, and "Exclusion" Systems | 97 |
10 | Deviance and Interdependence Between Matter and Spirit | 110 |
11 | The Modeling Role of the Zaddik in the Inclusion Community | 120 |
12 | The Deciphering-Inclusion Process | 129 |
III | The Psychological Perspective | |
13 | Ascent Through Descent: the Functional Dynamics of Monistic Deviance | 141 |
14 | Functional Phases in the "Ascent Through Descent" Process | 156 |
Epilogue: The Philosophical Perspective | ||
15 | Toward a Philosophical Sociology of Paradox | 177 |
Bibliography | 191 | |
Index | 201 |