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Title

How to escape from the diabolic triangle? : followed by a short analysis of some other collective delusions / Jan Berting.

Author

Berting, J.

Publication

Delft, the Netherlands : Eburon, 2010.

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Details

Description

x, 124 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Social psychology > Political aspects
• Collective behavior
• Group identity

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-112) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface (starting p. v) -- ch. 1 Introduction (starting p. 1) -- ch. 2 The Description of the Disjunction Phenomenon: The political, economic and social representation of society that has lost its roots in ̀real life' (starting p. 7) -- ch. 3 The Forces that Produce and Maintain the Disjunction between a Collective Representation and the ̀Reality' it Describes (starting p. 13) -- ch. 4 The Diabolic Triangle in the Debate about the Integration of Immigrants (starting p. 21) -- ch. 5 The Role of the Social Sciences in Sustaining the Disjunction between Collective Representations and What is Really Going on in Social Life (starting p. 29) -- ch. 6 The Confused Debate about Collective Identities (starting p. 35) -- ch. 7 National Identities, Ethnic Identities and Religious Identities (starting p. 43) -- ch. 8 How to Unmask, Unveil or Demystify a Disjunction Between a Collective Representation and the Reality it Pretends to Describe? (starting p. 55) -- ch. 9 How to Change a Situation in which the Disjunction Phenomenon Prevails? How to Escape from this Situation? (starting p. 61) -- ch. 10 Some Cases in which the Disjunction from Reality Plays a Dominant Role (starting p. 65) -- 10.1. The Clash between Civilisations (starting p. 65) -- 10.2. The Union for the Mediterranean (starting p. 67) -- 10.3. The Collective Representation of Modern Society as One in which Individualism Dominates (starting p. 72) -- 10.4. The Ultraliberal Conception of the Market and of the Individualist Society (starting p. 76) -- 10.5. The Debate on National Identity and Other Collective Identities (starting p. 80) -- 10.6. The Individualist Achievement Society (starting p. 84) -- 10.7. Collective Representations of Europe and European Identities (starting p. 86) -- 10.8. The Purposeful Creation of a Disjunction between a Collective Representation and Society (starting p. 96) -- ch. 11 Final remarks (starting p. 99) -- Bibliography (starting p. 109) -- List of Major Concepts (starting p. 113) -- Index (starting p. 121)

ISBN

• 9789059724082 (pbk.)
• 9059724089 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 670480559
• SCSB-10671752

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library