A nation of meddlers:
There was a time when the phrase "It's none of your business" meant something. Not anymore. A boorish and persistent army of meddlers, equipped with righteous indignation and a formidable array of theories and technologies, has made almost everyone's business its own. Meddling in...
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Boulder, Colo. [u.a.]
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1999
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| Zusammenfassung: | There was a time when the phrase "It's none of your business" meant something. Not anymore. A boorish and persistent army of meddlers, equipped with righteous indignation and a formidable array of theories and technologies, has made almost everyone's business its own. Meddling in the lives of others is now the republic's most visible obsession. Working within the symbolic interactionist tradition of cultural analysis and criticism, Charles Edgley and Dennis Brissett analyze this emergent phenomenon with insightful and provocative descriptions about how we came to be this way, why meddling is so appealing, and how meddling is packaged and marketed. Their conclusion offers wise and sometimes witty cautions about the proper relationship between the individual and society. |
| Beschreibung: | XIII, 274 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0813333075 |
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Preface vii
Acknowledgments xii
1 America: A Nation of Meddlers 1
Meddling Transformed: The Euphemisms of Meddling, 3
Toward a Definition of Meddling, 4
The Circumstances of Meddling, 6
Meddlers as Peddlers of Anti Themes, 9
Meddling as Both Avocation and Vocation, 10
The Cultural Context of Meddling, 14
Notes, 19
2 The Roots of Meddling 21
The Increasing Prevalence of Meddling: A Short History, 24
The Scientific/Therapeutic Ethic of Expertise, 38
The Search for Individual Transcendence, 51
Notes, 56
3 Running Scared: The Appeal and Acceptance of Meddling 59
The Institutionalization of Confusion, 59
Exaggerated Claims and the Promotion of Anxiety, 60
The Decline in the Prestige and Durability of
Family and Intimate Relationships, 65
The Promissory Appeal of Meddling, 66
Why People Meddle, 89
Why People Allow Themselves to Be Meddled With, 92
Notes, 94
4 The Ideologies of Meddling 97
Meddling in the Name of Health, 100
The Quest for the Perfect Body, 103
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vi Contents
Pure as Well as Perfect : The Puritan
Underpinnings of Health and Fitness, 105
Health Fascism, 108
Blaming the Victim, 109
Demonizing Smokers, 110
Elevating a Nuisance to a National Crisis:
The Meddling Career of Secondhand Smoke, 112
Fat: The Next Meddling Crusade, 118
The Hermetic Seal Conception of Life: Guarding
Against Negative Experience, 121
Meddling in the Name of Safety, 123
For the Sake of the Children, 127
In the Name of God, 130
Anxiety, Guilt, and Shame: New Uses, 131
Notes, 132
5 Types of Meddlers 137
A Caveat, 138
Motives for Meddling, 138
Amateur Meddlers, 139
Professional Meddlers, 162
Notes, 177
6 Marketing Meddling 179
Selling the Meddling Impulse, 179
Reaching the Public, 182
Solutions for Pandora s Box, 185
Perfection for Sale: Minds, Bodies, Selves, and Souls, 187
The Selling of Dependency on Experts, 190
The Packaging and Distribution of the Therapeutic, 191
Marketing Self Help, 194
Informal Help Talk, 199
Notes, 201
7 Meddling and the Social Bond 205
Proper Distinctions, 205
Individual Liberty and Social Constraint, 207
Paternalism and the Good Society, 210
Liberalism and Conservatism, 214
Persons and Communities, 217
The Philosophy of Anti and the Good Society, 219
Human Rights at the Cost of the Joy of Social Obligations, 224
Contents vii
Integrity, 225
Meddling and Greed: Toting and Touting, 227
When Is Meddling Necessary? 230
Humility and the Common Good, 233
Notes, 234
8 Conclusion: Toward A Less Meddlesome Society 237
The Social Psychology of Helping, 237
The Wages of Virtue and the Place of Pleasure, 240
Caring Without Meddling: The Gift of Sociability, 243
Toward a Less Meddlesome Society, 245
Notes, 249
References 251
Index 265
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