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Sociopathic Society: A People's Sociology of the United States

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ISBN-10: 1612054382

ISBN-13: 9781612054384

Edition: 2013

Authors: Charles Derber

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Charles Derber introduces and vividly explains the idea of a "sociopathic society"--and why the idea has become necessary to understand today's world.Sociopathic society is rooted in governments and economies, not psychiatry. The book offers a new sociology of societies organized around antisocial values, which ultimately lead to societal and planetary self-destruction. Most of the sociopathic behaviors are perfectly legal and are perpetrated by governments, financial institutions, and corporate capitalism.Focusing on the United States, Derber connects the dots of Wall Street meltdown, guns and murder, uninhibited greed, the 1% and the 99%, a new crisis of unemployable "surplus people,"…    
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Book details

Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Paradigm Pub
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Foreword
Preface
Sociopathic Society
An Anatomy of Sociopathic Society
Sociopathy and the New American Dream
Introduction: Sociopathic Individualism and Everyday Life
The Good Man Fills His Own Stomach: All-American Crimes and Misdemeanors
Conversational Narcissism and Sociopathic Talk
Newtown Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Sociopathic Capitalism
Introduction Is US Capitalism Antisocial?
Capitalist Crises and Capitalism against Society
Manufacturing Surplus People
The New Robber Barons
Sins of the Corporate Regime
Romney's "47 Percent" Blunder Reveals the Hidden Heart of His Agenda (with Yale Magrass)
Sociopathic Globalization
Kochamamie Democracy
War and Sociopathic Foreign policy
Introduction Sociopathy and Empire
American Empire and Its Moral Big Stick (with Yale Magrass)
The "Wright Problem" (with Yale Magrass)
What Does It Mean to Call McCain a "War Hero" Candidate? (with Yale Magrass)
When Wars Come Home (with Yale Magrass)
Climate Change as Sociopathy
Introduction Violence against the Earth
How Capitalism Causes Climate Change
Hurricane Sandy, Climate Sociopathy, and the Infrastructure Crisis
Consumerism as Sociopathy
Fascism: The Ultimate Sociopathic Society?
Introduction Sociopathy and the Far Right
Fascism Lite
History's Magic Mirror: America's Economic Crisis and the Weimar Republic of Pre-Nazi Germany (with Yale Magrass)
Alternatives and Activism
Introduction Beyond the Sociopathic Society
New American Values and the New America
Women's Values and a New America
Capitalism: Big Surprises in Recent Polls
The New America Is Not about Identity Politics
The Democracy Deficit Is the Real Deficit (with Paul Shannon)
Alternative Systems
The UN, the Barbershop, and Global Democracy
Alternatives to Sociopathic Capitalism
Will the World Be Ruled by Money or Human Rights?
Activism and What You Can Do
What You Can Do Now
From Bowling Alone to Bowling Green
Notes
Credits