Stephen G Wieting

The Sociology of Hypocrisy

An Analysis of Sport and Religion

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Identifying the negative effects of the detection of hypocrisy at individual and institutional levels, the author engages with the work of Goffman to argue for the importance of trust in institutions, underlining the necessity of minimizing and correcting hypocritical acts by which this is undermined. A detailed study of hypocrisy and the need for trust, this volume will appeal to scholars and students of sociology with interests in social and moral conduct, sport, religion, Goffman and the notion of social life as artifice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781472419224
• ISBN-10: 1472419227
• Artikelnr.: 44636891

Autorenporträt

Stephen G. Wieting is Emeritus Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Iowa, USA and editor of Sport and Memory in North America.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: is hypocrisy so ordinary as to ignore or the second worse vice?
Sport and religion in the United States
Some aspects of sport and religion in Iceland and France
Hypocrisy and information: technologies used in detection and in concealment
Hypocrisy and related deceits: when lying becomes normal
Hypocrisy and levels of trust within cultures
Ethical and theoretical implications of patterns of hypocrisy: artifice as a species constant or a variable