The Seven deadly sins: society and evil

Preface to revised and expanded edition Preface to first edition Sin and sociology I. Sloth On the meaning of sloth Sloth and sin : the ambiguities of acedia Acedia : the passive aspect Tristitia : the roots of melancholy and ennui Acedia : boredom and the activation of sloth Modern versions of acedia Sloth : sin or disease The dramatization of sloth Work : from asceticism to acedia The school : yawns and the tapping of feet Leisure : blessing or curse? A morality play Staging the drama of leisure : space Scenarios of culture and sloth Capitalism : the unemployed and the disreputable poor Imperialism : the "giving-up syndrome" among Oceanic peoples Politics : apathy and affectlessness Sloth and survival : Chekhov's dramatization of inertia Conclusion

II. Lust Lust in Christian thought : Augustine, Aquinas, Luther The "anthropology" of Augustine Thomas Aquinas and the sociology of sexual deviation Martin Luther and the psychology of lust Puritan attitudes toward lust The social organization of lust The asocial consequences of lust Incest Dyadic withdrawal Excursus : the drama of sin and dyadic withdrawal in Dante's Inferno The desublimation of love The denigration of love : sociological and anthropological views The denigration of love : psychoanalytic views Social controls over lust Stigmatization and degradation ceremonies Eunuchs, celibates, and castrati Chaperonage Assortative mating Child and arranged marriage The moral equivalent of lust The theater of cruelty of Antonin Artaud Conclusion

III. Anger Anger and the defense of self Anger and group defense Anger and sexual property Anger and the behavioral and social sciences Psychoanalysis and anger Social psychology and anger Ethology and anger Phenomenological sociology and anger Anger and territory Public territories Home territory The drama of anger

IV. Pride Early Christian views of pride Aristotle on pride Adam Smith on pride Alanus de Insulis on pride Georg Simmel on pride A medieval excursus : Chaucer's "Parson's Tale" and the waste and obscenity in prideful dress Pride and dress : later variations Pride and the individual Egoism and Evolutionism Egoism, redemption, and revolt : the ascetic as redeemer and revolutionary The ascetic redeemer in American culture Narcissism : sin and sublimation Pride and knowledge Pride. Knowledge, and sin in Jewish thought and practice Christianity, heresy, knowledge, and pride Pride and intellect in the secular age The new shibboleth : the quest for authenticity Pride and the religion of sociology A dramatization of pride : dignity in death The drama of death and dignity Voltaire and the art of dying in eighteenth-century France The problem of pride in public executions Conclusion

V. Envy Approaches to a definition Envy and the social structure Envy and survival Toward a definition of social justice : envy, relative deprivation, and resentment Envy, emulation, and competition Envy and display Envy and ethnicity Envy and ascription Body Gender envy Anatomy, destiny, and death : the dramatization of envy

VI. Gluttony Approaches to a definition History of the sin of gluttony Gluttony and the social structure The social construction of gluttony Absolution from the sin of gluttony : strategies of excuse and justification The sublimation of gluttony

VII. Greed

Defining the sin of greed

Greed as a sin in society and culture

Greed and the sciences : the separation of avarice from sin

Psychoanalytic interpretations of greed

The economics and sociology of greed : Mandeville, Simmel, and Weber

Mandeville

Simmel

Weber

Greed and the humanities : sin restored

Greed and society : collective behavior, white-collar crime, and the confidence game

Popular delusions and the madness of crowds : tulipomania, the South Sea Bubble, and the Gold Rush

The tulip craze in Holland

The South Sea Bubble

The Gold Rush : an excursus on the sociology of Karl Marx

White-collar crime

The confidence game : an excursus on the "sociology" of Herman Melville

Conclusion

Society and evil

Sin and sentiment : toward a sociology of the emotions

Anhedonia, sin, and the Protestant suppression of affect

Anger

Acedia

Envy

Sin and sentiment in structural-functionalism

Law and emotional sanctions : an excursus on the sociology of sin

Sin, sentiment, and sadism : a microecology of the emotions

Notes

Index.