Wilding of America
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Charles Derber
Charles Derber is professor of sociology at Boston College and former director of its graduate program on social economy and social justice. He is a prolific scholar in the field of politics, economy, international relations, and U.S. culture. He has written 17 internationally acclaimed books and several major research grants, as well as hundreds of scholarly articles, magazine essays, and newspaper columns.
Derber’s books include Capitalism: Should You Buy It? (With Yale Magrass; Paradigm Publishers, 2014); Sociopathic Society (Paradigm Publishers, 2013); Hidden Power: What You Need to Know to Save Our Democracy (Berrett-Koehler, 2005, translated into Korean), a bestseller in South Korea and nominated by the Independent Bookstores of the United States as one of the three best current affairs books in 2005; People Before Profit: The New Globalization in an Age of Terror, Big Money, and Economic Crisis (Picador, 2003, translated into Chinese, German, and British English); Corporation Nation (St. Martin’s Press, 2000, translated into Chinese); The Pursuit of Attention (Oxford, 2000, translated into Polish); Power in the Highest Degree (with William Schwartz and Yale Magrass, Oxford, 1990); Greed to Green (Paradigm Publishers, 2010; translated into Korean); and Marx’s Ghost, (Paradigm Publishers, 2011, translated into Chinese, Korean, and Tamil).
Derber espouses a public sociology that brings sociological perspectives to a general audience. Derber lectures widely at universities, companies, and community groups, and appears on numerous media outlets. His op-eds and essays appear in The New York Times, Newsday, The Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune, China’s People’s Daily , Truthout, and Tikkun, as well as other newspapers and online media, and he has been interviewed by Newsweek, Business Week, Time, and other news magazines. He speaks frequently on National Public Radio, on talk radio, and on television. His work has been reviewed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Washington Monthly, and numerous other magazines and newspapers.
Derber is also a life-long activist for social justice. In the spirit of the great sociologist C. Wright Mills, he believes in the responsibility of intellectuals to speak truth to power and to match words with action.
Derber is married and lives in Dedham, Massachusetts. He has a beautiful wheaten terrier named Mojo, who lives up to his name.
Table of Contents
Product Updates
Three all new chapters:
6 SOCIOPATHIC CAPITALISM:
WILDING WARS AGAINST WORKERS, THE POOR AND DEMOCRACY
In this chapter, Derber outlines the devastating effects of the increasing economic and power divide in the United States. Wage stagnation and decline, changes in voting requirements that make it nearly impossible for groups of voices to be heard, and the changing economic models threatening the country with a specific focus on the bankruptcy of Detroit.
7 VIGILANTE SOCIETY
GUNS, PROFITS AND RACE IN THE NEW WILD(ING) WEST
When Neighborhood Watchman George Zimmerman fired the bullet that killed Trayvon Martin, it set off a firestorm of debate over an American’s right to bear arms. A culture of independence and vigilante values, combined with corporate wilding in the gun market has helped a culture of violence flourish in the US. In chapter 7, Derber argues that these factors combined with worsening economic insecurity make for a disturbingly survivalist society.
8 WILDING AGAINST THE ENVIRONMENT:
CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE ULTIMATE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS
This chapter explores the ultimate tragedy – wilding against all future generations around the world. As wilding behavior continues to take its toll on the environment with big oil leading the global conversation on energy, a culture of consumerism, and the rise of fracking, the future of our children and the world they will inherit suffers.
Other MAJOR UPDATES INCLUDE:
3 Cheaters, Liars, and Survivors
Wilding Culture in the Media, Sports, College Campuses, and Everyday Life
- ALL NEW SECTION ON Wilding and Corporartization of the University focus oncover for-profit colleges; abuse of the student loan system; and the devaluing of professors in academia.
- Thouroughlly updated coverage of Wilding in Sports examining doping in baseball, Lance Armstrong’s fall from glory; and the concussion crisis in the NFL.
- New coverage of wilding in the media including coverage of television shows Breaking Bad, House of Card, and Dexter.
4 U.S. Business vs. Us
Global Capitalism and Corporate Wilding
- Several updates on new global sweatshops, most importantly the disastrous fire in Bangladesh apparel factory complex that killed 1300 workers and vividly exposed the systemic wilding in global production chains
5 Subprime Capitalism
The Great Recession and Systemic Wilding from Wall Street to Washington
- New information on the Wall Street players in the Great Recession, with important new sections on Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase and their roles in turning Wall Street into a wilding machine
11 Beyond Wilding
Resurrecting Civil Society
- Major updates on the Obama Administration and the Occupy Movement
New Student Support:
All new discussion questions appear at the end of every chapter.
Authors
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Charles Derber
Charles Derber is professor of sociology at Boston College and former director of its graduate program on social economy and social justice. He is a prolific scholar in the field of politics, economy, international relations, and U.S. culture. He has written 17 internationally acclaimed books and several major research grants, as well as hundreds of scholarly articles, magazine essays, and newspaper columns.
Derber’s books include Capitalism: Should You Buy It? (With Yale Magrass; Paradigm Publishers, 2014); Sociopathic Society (Paradigm Publishers, 2013); Hidden Power: What You Need to Know to Save Our Democracy (Berrett-Koehler, 2005, translated into Korean), a bestseller in South Korea and nominated by the Independent Bookstores of the United States as one of the three best current affairs books in 2005; People Before Profit: The New Globalization in an Age of Terror, Big Money, and Economic Crisis (Picador, 2003, translated into Chinese, German, and British English); Corporation Nation (St. Martin’s Press, 2000, translated into Chinese); The Pursuit of Attention (Oxford, 2000, translated into Polish); Power in the Highest Degree (with William Schwartz and Yale Magrass, Oxford, 1990); Greed to Green (Paradigm Publishers, 2010; translated into Korean); and Marx’s Ghost, (Paradigm Publishers, 2011, translated into Chinese, Korean, and Tamil).
Derber espouses a public sociology that brings sociological perspectives to a general audience. Derber lectures widely at universities, companies, and community groups, and appears on numerous media outlets. His op-eds and essays appear in The New York Times, Newsday, The Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune, China’s People’s Daily , Truthout, and Tikkun, as well as other newspapers and online media, and he has been interviewed by Newsweek, Business Week, Time, and other news magazines. He speaks frequently on National Public Radio, on talk radio, and on television. His work has been reviewed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Washington Monthly, and numerous other magazines and newspapers.
Derber is also a life-long activist for social justice. In the spirit of the great sociologist C. Wright Mills, he believes in the responsibility of intellectuals to speak truth to power and to match words with action.
Derber is married and lives in Dedham, Massachusetts. He has a beautiful wheaten terrier named Mojo, who lives up to his name.
Table of Contents
Product Updates
Three all new chapters:
6 SOCIOPATHIC CAPITALISM:
WILDING WARS AGAINST WORKERS, THE POOR AND DEMOCRACY
In this chapter, Derber outlines the devastating effects of the increasing economic and power divide in the United States. Wage stagnation and decline, changes in voting requirements that make it nearly impossible for groups of voices to be heard, and the changing economic models threatening the country with a specific focus on the bankruptcy of Detroit.
7 VIGILANTE SOCIETY
GUNS, PROFITS AND RACE IN THE NEW WILD(ING) WEST
When Neighborhood Watchman George Zimmerman fired the bullet that killed Trayvon Martin, it set off a firestorm of debate over an American’s right to bear arms. A culture of independence and vigilante values, combined with corporate wilding in the gun market has helped a culture of violence flourish in the US. In chapter 7, Derber argues that these factors combined with worsening economic insecurity make for a disturbingly survivalist society.
8 WILDING AGAINST THE ENVIRONMENT:
CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE ULTIMATE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS
This chapter explores the ultimate tragedy – wilding against all future generations around the world. As wilding behavior continues to take its toll on the environment with big oil leading the global conversation on energy, a culture of consumerism, and the rise of fracking, the future of our children and the world they will inherit suffers.
Other MAJOR UPDATES INCLUDE:
3 Cheaters, Liars, and Survivors
Wilding Culture in the Media, Sports, College Campuses, and Everyday Life
- ALL NEW SECTION ON Wilding and Corporartization of the University focus oncover for-profit colleges; abuse of the student loan system; and the devaluing of professors in academia.
- Thouroughlly updated coverage of Wilding in Sports examining doping in baseball, Lance Armstrong’s fall from glory; and the concussion crisis in the NFL.
- New coverage of wilding in the media including coverage of television shows Breaking Bad, House of Card, and Dexter.
4 U.S. Business vs. Us
Global Capitalism and Corporate Wilding
- Several updates on new global sweatshops, most importantly the disastrous fire in Bangladesh apparel factory complex that killed 1300 workers and vividly exposed the systemic wilding in global production chains
5 Subprime Capitalism
The Great Recession and Systemic Wilding from Wall Street to Washington
- New information on the Wall Street players in the Great Recession, with important new sections on Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase and their roles in turning Wall Street into a wilding machine
11 Beyond Wilding
Resurrecting Civil Society
- Major updates on the Obama Administration and the Occupy Movement
New Student Support:
All new discussion questions appear at the end of every chapter.
From the heights of society down to the saddest corners of America, we are currently experiencing an epidemic of “wilding”—acts of self-interested violence or greed that weaken the social fabric. Derber’s fully updated Sixth Edition of The Wilding of America takes the reader on a terrifying tour of this out-of-control individualism spreading across the United States.
Three exciting new chapters—Chapter 6, Sociopathic Capitalism; Chapter 7, Vigilante Justice; and Chapter 8, Wilding Against the Environment—bring fresh insight to American culture with coverage of the bankruptcy of Detroit; the shooting of Trayvon Martin; and the degradation of the environment. Additionally, each chapter of the new edition has been thoroughly updated with the most current coverage of wilding by universities, athletes, and the entertainment industry, global sweat shops, the Obama administration, the Occupy movement and much more.
This thoroughly updated edition also includes all new discussion questions for each chapter, and wraps up with inspiring ideas of how the reader can fight the wilding crisis at home, in school, and in her everyday life. The Wilding of America asks readers to take action, and offers a hopeful vision of for how we can all make our world a better place.
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Wilding of America
From the heights of society down to the saddest corners of America, we are currently experiencing an epidemic of “wilding”—acts of self-interested violence or greed that weaken the social fabric. Derber’s fully updated Sixth Edition of The Wilding of America takes the reader on a terrifying tour of this out-of-control individualism spreading across the United States.
Three exciting new chapters—Chapter 6, Sociopathic Capitalism; Chapter 7, Vigilante Justice; and Chapter 8, Wilding Against the Environment—bring fresh insight to American culture with coverage of the bankruptcy of Detroit; the shooting of Trayvon Martin; and the degradation of the environment. Additionally, each chapter of the new edition has been thoroughly updated with the most current coverage of wilding by universities, athletes, and the entertainment industry, global sweat shops, the Obama administration, the Occupy movement and much more.
This thoroughly updated edition also includes all new discussion questions for each chapter, and wraps up with inspiring ideas of how the reader can fight the wilding crisis at home, in school, and in her everyday life. The Wilding of America asks readers to take action, and offers a hopeful vision of for how we can all make our world a better place.
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