Wilding of America : Money, Mayhem, and the New American Dream
ISBN: 9781429232999 | 1429232994
Edition: 5thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Worth Publishers
Pub. Date: 12/14/2009
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The American dream champions individualism. But at what price? In the fully updated fifth edition of The Wilding of America, Charles Derber chronicles the latest incidents of wilding -acts of self-interested violence or greed that weaken the social fabric. The new edition examines such topics as the recent doping scandals in sports; government-sponsored torture; new threats to our public space, social infrastructure, and natural environment; the effects of the Obama administration on wilding behavior; and in an all-new chapter, the 2008 Wall St... MORE
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| The Good Man Fills His Own Stomach: All-American Crimes and Misdemeanors | p. 1 |
| Wilding in Black and White | p. 1 |
| The Mountain People: A Wilding Culture | p. 4 |
| The Ik in Us | p. 6 |
| Economic, Political, and Social Wilding | p. 9 |
| Wilding and Not Wilding: Varieties of Individualism | p. 10 |
| The Two Americas: Are ... MORE | p. 13 |
| Wilding and the New American Dream: Individualism Today and Yesterday | p. 14 |
| Roots of Wilding: Durkheim, Marx, and the Sociological Eye | p. 17 |
| The Ultimate Wilders: Prisoners of the American Dream | p. 22 |
| Robert Oakley Marshall: ôSpeed Demon on the Boulevard of Dreamsö | p. 25 |
| Them and Us: Violence and the Oversocialized American Character | p. 29 |
| Then and Now: An American Tragedy | p. 31 |
| Susan Smith: Infanticide and the Honor Student | p. 34 |
| Cheaters, Liars, and Survivors: Wilding Culture in the Media, Sports, College Campuses, and Everyday Life | p. 38 |
| Survival: Reality TV and the Ik-ing of America | p. 39 |
| Lost, House, and The Shield: TV Wilding for Men | p. 40 |
| Young and Wild: Drinking, Cheating, and Other Campus Sports | p. 42 |
| Dopey Sports: Wilding as the Great American pastime | p. 45 |
| Grand Theft Auto, Doom, and Video Wilding for Fun and Profit | p. 49 |
| All-American Drug Dealing: Unattainable Goals and , Illegitimate Means | p. 51 |
| U.S. Business vs. Us: Global Capitalism and Corporate Wilding | p. 54 |
| A Fish Rots from the Head First | p. 54 |
| Capitalism vs. Community: Sociological Prophets and Global Profits | p. 56 |
| The Musical Chairs of Global Business: The New Corporate Wilding | p. 58 |
| Wilding around the World: The Third World as Global Sweatshop | p. 59 |
| Globalization Without Wilding: The Future of Globalization After the Battle of Seattle | p. 64 |
| Subprime Capitalism: The Great Recession and Systemic Wilding from Wall Street to Washington | p. 67 |
| Marx, Madoff, and Capitalism Gone Wild | p. 69 |
| Countrywide: Our Financial Jurassic Park | p. 70 |
| Merrill Lynch: Banks Gone Wild | p. 73 |
| AIG: Wall Street's Heart of Darkness | p. 75 |
| Moody's and Standard and Poor's: ôRated F for Failureö | p. 77 |
| CNBC and Media Wilding: Jim Cramer vs. Jon Stewart | p. 78 |
| George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and the Corporate State: Bailouts, Deregulation, and Political Wilding in Washington | p. 79 |
| Wilding in the Church: Unaccountable Brethren and Voices of the Faithful | p. 83 |
| Pedophilia, Sexual Abuse, and Rape: Wilding among the Priests | p. 84 |
| Cardinal Bernard Law and the Coverup: The Church as Institutional Wilder | p. 85 |
| The Corporate State and the Church: Wilding and the Collapse of Institutional Accountability | p. 88 |
| How to End Wilding in the Church: Empower the Laity | p. 89 |
| War and Wilding: Iraq and the War against Terrorism | p. 93 |
| War in Iraq | p. 94 |
| Legality | p. 96 |
| Justice | p. 97 |
| Occupation as Wilding | p. 99 |
| The War on Terrorism | p. 102 |
| Torture, Big Brother, and State Terror | p. 106 |
| Wilding and Presidential Powers in the Era of Permanent Warfare | p. 109 |
| Fighting Terrorism without Wilding | p. 112 |
| What You Can Do | p. 113 |
| Katrina: The Perfect Wilding Storm | p. 116 |
| Individual Wilding | p. 117 |
| Corporate Wilding | p. 119 |
| Political Wilding | p. 120 |
| Societal Wilding | p. 127 |
| Katrina's Lessons | p. 128 |
| The Tragedy of the Commons: Murdering Society and Wilding Against the Environment | p. 132 |
| Wilding in the Streets: The Killing of our Public Space Commons | p. 133 |
| Triage: How Disappearing Jobs, Foreclosed Homes, and Uninsured Health Are Unraveling Our Social Infrastructure Commons | p. 135 |
| Global Warming: Wilding and the Ultimate Tragedy of the Commons | p. 138 |
| Big Oil and Big Coal: Corporate Wilding and Climate Change | p. 140 |
| Capitalism, Consumerism, and Climate Change: The American Dream and Ultimate Systemic Wilding | p. 142 |
| Beyond Wilding: Resurrecting Civil Society | p. 147 |
| The Case for Hope | p. 147 |
| Rethinking the American Dream: A New Communitarianism? | p. 151 |
| The Social Market: Sociological Sense and Dollars and Cents | p. 153 |
| A New New Deal: ôMy Brother's Keeper; My Sister's Keeperö as American Morality | p. 156 |
| A New Bill of Rights? The Politics of Civil Society | p. 160 |
| Defending Our Lives: Getting from Here to There | p. 163 |
| Notes | p. 170 |
| Index | p. 195 |
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