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The Postemotional Bully (Hardcover)
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The Postemotional Bully (Hardcover)
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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.
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