The postemotional bully / (Record no. 2707)
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| fixed length control field | 02215cam a2200181Ii 4500 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 1473907802 |
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| ISBN | 9781473907805 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 302.34/3 |
| MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Meštrović, Stjepan Gabriel, |
| TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The postemotional bully / |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 124 pages ; |
| SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Sage Swifts |
| FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | The problem -- Modernity as a bully -- Postmodernism as negation of the gift -- Postemotionalism illustrated -- Abu Ghraib and postemotional society -- Driven to suicide by bullying -- Beaten to death -- Conclusions : Where do we go from here? |
| SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The topics of bullying and hazing have sparked interest and discussion in recent years. Hazing is a crime in the United States, and Western nations have made efforts to stamp out bullying in schools, the workplace, and institutions. However, for the most part, bullying and hazing are ill-defined and lack theoretical perspective. Mestrovic brings classical as well as contemporary social theory to bear on this discussion. Thorstein Veblen defined the predatory barbarian as the social type, enshrined by modernity, who prefers to use force over peacable means to achieve ends. On the other extreme, Marcel Mauss wrote about the spirit of the gift and its obligations - to give, to receive, and to reciprocate - as the fundamental basis of social life. Yet, he argued that the spirit of modernity was disappearing with the progress of modernity. Mestrovic traces this fundamental opposition between barbaric force or bullying versus benign obligation that is the spirit of the gift through a host of modernist and postmodernist thinkers and theories. He introduces the concept of the 'postemotional bully' as an alternative to both of these major bodies of social theory. The postemotional bully, as a social type, is fungible, beset by screen-images on media and social media that are isolating, and is at the mercy of the peer-group. Case studies focus on bullying and hazing, specifically the cases of an American solider who committed suicide in Afghanistan, instances of torture at Abu Ghraib, and the murder of a 23-year-old African-American inmate in a Southern state prison in the US |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Bullying |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Hazing |
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| Koha item type | Books |
| Permanent Location | Current Location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). | Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). | 02/06/2023 | BF637.M47 2015 | 0160620 | Books |
| Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). | Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). | 02/06/2023 | BF637.M47 2015 | 0160619 | Books |