Is killing wrong? [electronic resource] : a study in pure sociology / Mark Cooney.
2009
HV6515 .C65 2009eb
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Title
Is killing wrong? [electronic resource] : a study in pure sociology / Mark Cooney.
Author
Cooney, Mark, 1955-
ISBN
9780813928265 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813928265 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813928357 (e-book)
0813928265 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813928357 (e-book)
Imprint
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.
Language
English
Description
xii, 254 p.
Call Number
HV6515 .C65 2009eb
Summary
From the Publisher: "Thou shalt not kill" is arguably the most basic moral and legal principle in any society. Yet while some killers are pilloried and punished, others are absolved and acquitted, and still others are lauded and lionized. Why? The traditional answer is that how killers are treated depends on the nature of their killing, whether it was aggressive or defensive, intentional or accidental. But those factors cannot explain the enormous variation in legal officials' and citizens' responses to real-life homicides. Cooney argues that a radically new style of thought-pure sociology-can. Conceived by the sociologist Donald Black, pure sociology makes no reference to psychology, to any single person's intent, or even to individuals as such. Instead, pure sociology explains behavior in terms of its social geometry-its location and direction in a multidimensional social space. Is Killing Wrong? provides the most comprehensive assessment of pure sociology yet attempted. Drawing on data from well over one hundred societies, including the modern day United States, it represents the most thorough account yet of case-level social control, or the response to conduct defined as wrong. In doing so, it demonstrates that the law and morality of homicide are neither universal nor relative but geometrical, as predicted by Black's theory.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Studies in pure sociology.
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Table of Contents
Preface
1: Morality of homicide
2: Pure sociology
3: Vertical dimension
4: Organizational dimension
5: Radial dimension
6: Normative dimension
7: Cultural dimension
8: Relational dimension
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index.
1: Morality of homicide
2: Pure sociology
3: Vertical dimension
4: Organizational dimension
5: Radial dimension
6: Normative dimension
7: Cultural dimension
8: Relational dimension
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index.