Understanding problems of social pathology / / edited by Przemyslaw Piotrowski.

A social reality (including social pathology) is constantly being constructed anew in the process of confrontation of perspectives and definitions of individuals, institutions and social groups. Therefore what interests the authors of the book more than the disputes on the right definition, is the u...

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Superior document:At the interface/probing the boundaries ; 33
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Year of Publication:2006
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:At the interface/probing the boundaries ; 33.
Physical Description:1 online resource (267 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Przemysław Piotrowski: Introduction
  • PART 1 Norms and Pathology - Probing the Boundaries of Social Life
  • Krzysztof MUDYŃ: On Constructive and Destructive Ways of Understanding Personal Freedom and Responsibility
  • Richard JACKSON: The Social-Psychological Construction of Violent Political Discourses: Psychopathology in Political Life
  • Emil W.PŁYWACZEWSKI: The Phenomenon of Prostitution in Poland: Around the Problem of Legalization
  • Andrzej R.ŚWIAŁOWSKI: 'Blind Date with Dirty Harry ': A Criminal Justice Dispute on the Polish -Language WWW
  • PART 2 Problems of Social Pathology: Symptoms and Mechanisms
  • Agnieszka OGONOWSKA: Iconic Violence: Description of the Phenomenon
  • Piotr SŁOWIK and Piotr PASSOWICZ: Juvenile Delinquency in Poland: Psycho-Social Conditions
  • Christian MOUHANNA: Young People and Police Officers in French Poor Suburbs: The Social Construction of a Conflict
  • Przemystaw PIOTROWSKI: Collective Behaviour: Psycho-Social Determinants
  • Barbara PILECKA: Suicide of the Elderly
  • Dorota KUBACKA-JASIECKA: Silent Bystanders to Violence: Social Influence or a Conflict of Identification
  • PART 3 Individual and Social-Scale Preventive Strategies
  • Małágorzata WYSOCKA-PLECZYK: Victims of Violence: Stereotypes and the Process of Helping
  • Krzysztof ZAJACZKOWSKI: Prevalence of Psychoactive Substance Use among Adolescents in Poland in the Period of Political Transformation: Change Tendencies and Prevention Programmes
  • Urszula WOZINIAK: Coping Behaviour of the Unemployed from the Perspective of Robert Merton 's Theory of Anomie
  • Notes on Contributors.