S Giora Shoham: 5 books

This tour-de-force is an innovating, interdisciplinary treatment of sex and love. It draws on biology, mythology, psychoanalysis, and philosophy as well as on the author's own personality theory, to construct a model of affective relationships between human beings. Shoham proposes a mother-based sexual...

This book is one of the great 20th century classics on the historical, cultural and social role of stigma in societies everywhere, but especially Western Society. Shoham, his erudition on display like no other, explores what it means to be stigmatized and how society becomes differentiated between "us"...

Topics covered include: Introduction: Ego and Its Shadow I. BEATITUDE THROUGH SIN 1. The Origins: Biopsychology of Birth 2. Myths 3. Quest for Nonbeing 4. To Break the Covenant is to Confirm it II. ASSERTION BY NEGATION 5. Paradise Lost 6. Ontological Loneliness 7. Assault on Cognition 8. Waiver of Sanity...

This primer covers all the classic theory and research on the sociology of crime. CONTENTS: 1. Criminology and Social Deviance. 2. Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Criminology. 3. Ecological Theories of Crime and Delinquency. 4. Anomie and Social Deviance: Strain Theories. 5. Differential Association...

First published back in the 1980s, there's still nothing like this book anywhere. Provides a balanced, innovative account of the psychology of crime, drawing on current and past scientific research and philosophies. CONTENTS: 1. Perspectives, Defining Crime, and Theoretical Evaluation. 2. Psychoanalytic...