Synopses & Reviews
This revised paperback edition features a new prologue and updated citations. The book extends the theoretical approach of Black's classic BEHAVIOR OF LAW (Academic Press, 1976) to a dramatically larger universe: the handling of conflict across societies and history. It also introduces and illustrates Black's"pure sociology,"a new theoretical paradigm applicable to human behavior of every kind.
Key Features
* Provides current sociological theory on largely unexplored topics such as vengeance, discipline, avoidance, pacification, negotiation and toleration
Contains new concepts and typologies applicable to partisan and nonpartisan forms of conflict management
* Illustrates modern theoretical perspectives on:
* Crime as self-help
* The broadening liability of organizations
* Social control of the self
* The behavior of third parties
* Partisanship as social gravitation
* Moralism as social repulsion
Review
'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
Synopsis
Introduces and illustrates Black's"pure sociology", a theoretical paradigm applicable to human behavior of various kinds. This work contains concepts and typologies applicable to partisan and nonpartisan forms of conflict management. It also gives theoretical perspectives on: crime as self-help; the broadening liability of organizations; and more.
Synopsis
This revised paperback edition features a new prologue and updated citation. The book extends the theoretical approach of Black's classic Behavior of Law (1976) to a dramatically larger universe: the handling of conflict across societies and history. It also introduces and illustrates Black's "pure sociology," a new theoretical paradigm applicable to human behavior of every kind.
Synopsis
es and history. It also introduces and illustrates Black's "pure sociology," a new theoretical paradigm applicable to human behavior of every kind.
Table of Contents
Social Control as a Dependent Variable. Crime as Social Control. Compensation and the Social Structure of Misfortune. Social Control of the Self. The Elementary Forms of Conflict Management. Toward a Theory of the Third Party (with M.P. Baumgartner). Taking Sides. Making Enemies. Appendix: A Strategy of Pure Sociology. References. Author Index. Subject Index.