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The handling of right and wrong, known in sociology as social control or conflict management, covers everything from a brief glance of disapproval to the horrific bombing of a large city. This book contains formulations that predict and explain the nature of social control. "The Social Structure of Right and Wrong" uses a theoretical approach, pursuing a radically sociological (not psychological) and uncompromisingly scientific approach to the application of morality. The book provides a wealth of new sociological theory on largely unexplored topics such as vengeance, discipline, avoidance, pacification, negotiation and toleration. It contains new concepts and typologies applicable to partisan and nonpartisan forms of conflict management. It also offers new theoretical perspectives on: crime as a form of self-help; the broadening legal liability of organizations; social control of the self; social determination; evolution of partisanship; and moralism. Black is the author of "The Behavior of Law" also published by Academic Press.
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"Donald Black dramatically expands the scope of his work on law to the handling of conflict across a vast and diverse range of historical and cultural settings...The general paradigm he develops is applicable to an even broader range of issues in social science...His new work will continue to inspire further empirical research and theoretical work for years to come."
--Roberta Senechal de la Roche in LAW & SOCIAL INQUIRY
"Black's vivid and powerful theorizing on...the form, style, and quantity of human conflict and the application of morality remains insightful and highly original throughout; his elegant models are quintessentially sociological and almost unlimited in scope...Addresses a central and undertheorized topic in sociology and does so in creative and masterful fashion."
--Theory Prize Committee, American Sociological Association, in PERSPECTIVES
"People appreciate its elegance and simplicity, the awesome scope of its vision, the graceful symmetry of its arguments. I am reminded of great art when I read it."
--Thomas J. Bernard, Pennsylvania State University, American Society of Criminology, symposium on THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF RIGHT AND WRONG
"Black has developed his major theoretical works with such rigor at a conceptual level that...they merit comparison to the major works of Parsons, Luhmann, Habermas, and then to those of the classics...An aspiration grander than Durkheims...and Black more fully realizes his aspiration...There is one other quality in Blacks major works that reminds me of the classics: it takes courage to write the kind of books he writes...Black says things that prominent individuals do not want to hear, and he says them loudly and clearly."
--David Sciulli in LAW & SOCIAL INQUIRY
"Black has contributed much to sociology and law. He has introduced science to law and law to sociology....Law can now be studied objectively, theorized generally, and predicted universally....The discipline of sociology of law owes him much for his...relentless effort, unsurpassed intellect, and selfless devotion."
--Kam C. Wong in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW
"Donald Black continues to present us with creative ideas, and the logic behind the sequencing of the chapters and the clear organization reveal another systematic approach to the study of social control...The advantage of Blacks approach is important.His heuristic research strategy can help explicate social processes such as norm formation, power realignment, economic consolidation, solidarity enhancement, and deviance creation in terms of other abstract features, which are then examined in a varietyof social contexts varying in scale, complexity, degree of formalization, and historical and comparative setting...His approach...has great breadth and is open to confirmation or disconfirmation."
--Pat Lauderdale, School of Justice, Arizona State University, in CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY
Pat Lauderdale, School of Justice, Arizona State University, in Contemporary Sociology:
--Roberta Senechal de la Roche in LAW & SOCIAL INQUIRY
"Black's vivid and powerful theorizing on...the form, style, and quantity of human conflict and the application of morality remains insightful and highly original throughout; his elegant models are quintessentially sociological and almost unlimited in scope...Addresses a central and undertheorized topic in sociology and does so in creative and masterful fashion."
--Theory Prize Committee, American Sociological Association, in PERSPECTIVES
"People appreciate its elegance and simplicity, the awesome scope of its vision, the graceful symmetry of its arguments. I am reminded of great art when I read it."
--Thomas J. Bernard, Pennsylvania State University, American Society of Criminology, symposium on THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF RIGHT AND WRONG
"Black has developed his major theoretical works with such rigor at a conceptual level that...they merit comparison to the major works of Parsons, Luhmann, Habermas, and then to those of the classics...An aspiration grander than Durkheims...and Black more fully realizes his aspiration...There is one other quality in Blacks major works that reminds me of the classics: it takes courage to write the kind of books he writes...Black says things that prominent individuals do not want to hear, and he says them loudly and clearly."
--David Sciulli in LAW & SOCIAL INQUIRY
"Black has contributed much to sociology and law. He has introduced science to law and law to sociology....Law can now be studied objectively, theorized generally, and predicted universally....The discipline of sociology of law owes him much for his...relentless effort, unsurpassed intellect, and selfless devotion."
--Kam C. Wong in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW
"Donald Black continues to present us with creative ideas, and the logic behind the sequencing of the chapters and the clear organization reveal another systematic approach to the study of social control...The advantage of Blacks approach is important.His heuristic research strategy can help explicate social processes such as norm formation, power realignment, economic consolidation, solidarity enhancement, and deviance creation in terms of other abstract features, which are then examined in a varietyof social contexts varying in scale, complexity, degree of formalization, and historical and comparative setting...His approach...has great breadth and is open to confirmation or disconfirmation."
--Pat Lauderdale, School of Justice, Arizona State University, in CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY
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"Donald Black continues to present us with creative ideas, and the logic behind the sequencing of the chapters and the clear organization reveal another systematic approach to the study of social control...The advantage of Black's approach is important. His heuristic research strategy can help explicate social processes such as norm formation, power realignment, economic consolidation, solidarity enhancement, and deviance creation in terms of other abstract features, which are then examined in a variety of social contexts varying in scale, complexity, degree of formalization, and historical and comparative setting...His approach...has great breadth and is open to confirmation or disconfirmation." -Pat Lauderdale, School of Justice, Arizona State University, in Contemporary Sociology
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- PublisherAcademic Press Inc
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0121028003
- ISBN 13 9780121028008
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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