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Wilding of America : Money, Mayhem, and the New American Dream

by: Derber, Charles

Wilding of America : Money, Mayhem, and the New American Dream

by: Derber, Charles

ISBN 13:
9781429232999
ISBN 10:
1429232994
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 12/14/2009
Publisher: Worth Publishers

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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 Street meltdown. Book jacket.

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 We All Wilders?	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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Wilding of America : Money, Mayhem, and the New American Dream

Wilding of America : Money, Mayhem, and the New American Dream

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1429232994

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