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Everything In Its Path
The 1977 Sorokin Award–winning story of Buffalo Creek in the aftermath of a devastating flood. On February 26, 1972, 132-million gallons of debris-filled muddy water burst through a makeshift mining-company dam and roared through Buffalo Creek, a narrow mountain hollow in West Virginia. Following the flood, survivors from a previously tightly knit community were crowded into trailer homes with no concern for former neighborhoods. The result was a collective trauma that lasted longer than the individual traumas caused by the original disaster. Making extensive use of the words of the people themselves, Erikson details the conflicting tensions of mountain life in general—the tensions between individualism and dependency, self-assertion and resignation, self-centeredness and group orientation—and examines the loss of connection, disorientation, declining morality, rise in crime, rise in out-migration, etc., that resulted from the sudden loss of neighborhood.
Kai Erikson's View of Crime in Society
Scientific Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Sociology - Law and Delinquency, grade: 2.1 (British scale), The University of York, course: Sociology with Criminology, language: English, abstract: This paper will attempt to evaluate Kai Erikson’s functionalist criminological perspective in his work 'Wayward Puritans', and will determine to what extent deviance in society is an important condition in preserving the stability of social life.
The Sociologist's Eye
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: A Way of Looking -- APPROACHES -- View from the Fourteenth Floor -- The Individual and the Social -- Knowing the Place for the First Time -- Disaster at Buffalo Creek -- BEGINNINGS -- Human Origins -- Discovering the Social -- Coming to Terms with Social Life -- The Journey of Piotr and Kasia Walkowiak -- PLACES -- Village -- City -- Worlds Beyond -- It Seemed Like the Whole Bay Died -- PROCESSES -- Becoming a Person -- Creating Divisions -- Becoming a People -- War Comes to Pakrac -- Postscripts -- Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- G -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Wayward Puritans
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A New Species of Trouble
In the twentieth century, disasters caused by human beings have become more and more common. Unlike earthquakes and other natural catastrophes, this 'new species of trouble' afflicts person and groups in particularly disruptive ways.
Wayward Puritans
Kai T. Erikson uses the Puritan settlement in 17th-century Massachusetts as a setting in which to examine several ideas about deviant behavior in society. Combining sociology and history, the author draws on the records of the Bay Colony to illustrate the way in which deviant behavior fits in the texture of social life generally. The main argument of "Wayward Puritans" is that deviant forms of behavior are often a valuable resource in society, providing a point of contrast, which is necessary for the maintenance of a coherent social order. In a new Afterword, the author offers new conclusions, fresh insights, and noteworthy reflections on his work and its impact forty years after its origina...
The Nature of Work
In this book, America's leading authorities on the sociology of work discuss the recent transformation of the nature of work in America. Among the provocative issues they raise are these: precisely what alienation from work means, and what nonalienated forms of work might be like; what happens within the family when both husband and wife contribute to the family's income; how work values are changing, and whether the primacy of work in people's lives has begun to wane and other questions.
Identity's Architect
Drawing on private materials and extensive interviews, historian Lawrence J. Friedman illuminates the relationship between Erik Erikson's personal life and his notion of the life cycle and the identity crisis. --From publisher's description.
Sociological Visions
All of the essays are by authors whose sociological vision has had a profound impact on our culture.
Meaning and Moral Order
Meaning and Moral Order goes beyond classical, neoclassical, and poststructural theories of culture in its attempt to move away from problems of meaning to a more objective concept of culture. Innovative, controversial, challenging, it will compel scholars to rethink many of the assumptions on which the study of ideology, ritual, religion, science, and culture have been based.
