The seven deadly sins : society and evil / Stanford M. Lyman.

Author/creator Lyman, Stanford M.
Format Book
EditionRev. and expanded ed.
Publication InfoDix Hills, N.Y. : General Hall, 1989.
Descriptionxi, 355 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Deadly sins.
Ethics--History.
Social sciences and ethics.

SeriesThe Reynolds series in sociology
Reynolds series in sociology. ^A675234
Contents Preface to revised and expanded edition -- Preface to first edition -- Sin and sociology -- I. Sloth -- On the meaning of sloth -- Sloth and sin : the ambiguities of acedia -- Acedia : the passive aspect -- Tristitia : the roots of melancholy and ennui -- Acedia : boredom and the activation of sloth -- Modern versions of acedia -- Sloth : sin or disease -- The dramatization of sloth -- Work : from asceticism to acedia -- The school : yawns and the tapping of feet -- Leisure : blessing or curse? A morality play -- Staging the drama of leisure : space -- Scenarios of culture and sloth -- Capitalism : the unemployed and the disreputable poor -- Imperialism : the "giving-up syndrome" among Oceanic peoples -- Politics : apathy and affectlessness -- Sloth and survival : Chekhov's dramatization of inertia -- Conclusion.
Contents II. Lust -- Lust in Christian thought : Augustine, Aquinas, Luther -- The "anthropology" of Augustine -- Thomas Aquinas and the sociology of sexual deviation -- Martin Luther and the psychology of lust -- Puritan attitudes toward lust -- The social organization of lust -- The asocial consequences of lust -- Incest -- Dyadic withdrawal -- Excursus : the drama of sin and dyadic withdrawal in Dante's Inferno -- The desublimation of love -- The denigration of love : sociological and anthropological views -- The denigration of love : psychoanalytic views -- Social controls over lust -- Stigmatization and degradation ceremonies -- Eunuchs, celibates, and castrati -- Chaperonage -- Assortative mating -- Child and arranged marriage -- The moral equivalent of lust -- The theater of cruelty of Antonin Artaud -- Conclusion.
Contents III. Anger -- Anger and the defense of self -- Anger and group defense -- Anger and sexual property -- Anger and the behavioral and social sciences -- Psychoanalysis and anger -- Social psychology and anger -- Ethology and anger -- Phenomenological sociology and anger -- Anger and territory -- Public territories -- Home territory -- The drama of anger.
Contents IV. Pride -- Early Christian views of pride -- Aristotle on pride -- Adam Smith on pride -- Alanus de Insulis on pride -- Georg Simmel on pride -- A medieval excursus : Chaucer's "Parson's Tale" and the waste and obscenity in prideful dress -- Pride and dress : later variations -- Pride and the individual -- Egoism and Evolutionism -- Egoism, redemption, and revolt : the ascetic as redeemer and revolutionary -- The ascetic redeemer in American culture -- Narcissism : sin and sublimation -- Pride and knowledge -- Pride. Knowledge, and sin in Jewish thought and practice -- Christianity, heresy, knowledge, and pride -- Pride and intellect in the secular age -- The new shibboleth : the quest for authenticity -- Pride and the religion of sociology -- A dramatization of pride : dignity in death -- The drama of death and dignity -- Voltaire and the art of dying in eighteenth-century France -- The problem of pride in public executions -- Conclusion.
Contents V. Envy -- Approaches to a definition -- Envy and the social structure -- Envy and survival -- Toward a definition of social justice : envy, relative deprivation, and resentment -- Envy, emulation, and competition -- Envy and display -- Envy and ethnicity -- Envy and ascription -- Body -- Gender envy -- Anatomy, destiny, and death : the dramatization of envy.
Contents VI. Gluttony -- Approaches to a definition -- History of the sin of gluttony -- Gluttony and the social structure -- The social construction of gluttony -- Absolution from the sin of gluttony : strategies of excuse and justification -- The sublimation of gluttony.
Contents VII. Greed -- Defining the sin of greed -- Greed as a sin in society and culture -- Greed and the sciences : the separation of avarice from sin -- Psychoanalytic interpretations of greed -- The economics and sociology of greed : Mandeville, Simmel, and Weber -- Mandeville -- Simmel -- Weber -- Greed and the humanities : sin restored -- Greed and society : collective behavior, white-collar crime, and the confidence game -- Popular delusions and the madness of crowds : tulipomania, the South Sea Bubble, and the Gold Rush -- The tulip craze in Holland -- The South Sea Bubble -- The Gold Rush : an excursus on the sociology of Karl Marx -- White-collar crime -- The confidence game : an excursus on the "sociology" of Herman Melville -- Conclusion -- Society and evil -- Sin and sentiment : toward a sociology of the emotions -- Anhedonia, sin, and the Protestant suppression of affect -- Anger -- Acedia -- Envy -- Sin and sentiment in structural-functionalism -- Law and emotional sanctions : an excursus on the sociology of sin -- Sin, sentiment, and sadism : a microecology of the emotions -- Notes -- Index.
General noteFirst ed. published in 1978.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Other formsAlso issued online.
Issued in other formOnline version: Lyman, Stanford M. Seven deadly sins. Rev. and expanded ed. Dix Hills, N.Y. : General Hall, 1989
ISBN0930390822
ISBN9780930390822
ISBN0930390814 (pbk.)
ISBN9780930390815 (pbk.)

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