Legal Systems and Incest Taboos: The Transition from Childhood to Adolescence

The goal of this book is to investigate why there are two distinct notions of liability in the legal and ethical systems of different societies; the relationship between two sets of criteria of liability and the individual’s evolution from childhood adolescence. The specific ways in which different societies cope with the transition from childhood to adolescence are important because a sense of responsibility, consonant with the goals of the society and survival of family and culture, is implanted in the growing child. The ways in which incest taboos are taught constitute one of the crucial modes by which a sense of responsibility is implanted within an individual during his transition from childhood to adolescence. The author places most of his focus on social systems, the transition from childhood to adolescence. Theoretical concerns are with the ways in which human biology and human social structures impact each other. The fact that wide variations do exist among societies in connection with certain types of incest taboos does not lead inevitably to the conclusion that there is no biological basis for the incest taboo. The immediate impression of variability can be misleading; extreme differences between cultures in the same institutional realm, as between individuals, often reveals remarkable regularity and consistency. These regularities are seen in the cultural phenomena; the assumption that biology and culture are bound up in their manifestations is fundamental in understanding their nature

Health, Fitness & Dieting

commons,john r

Psychology & Counseling

Routledge

Legal Foundations Of Capitalism

Legal Foundations of Capitalism

The aim of this volume is to work out an evo-lutionary and behavioral theory of value. To do so thoroughly, Commons examines the decisions of the courts. Doing so compelled an exami-nation of what the courts mean by reasonable value. This edition is graced with a special introduction that places Commons in proper academic as well as intellectual context.

Business & Money

Economics

Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Myself the Autobiography of John R. Commons

Biographies & Memoirs

The economics of collective action

University of Wisconsin Press

History of Labor in the United States (4 volume set)

Augustus M. Kelley Pubs

Trade Unionism and Labor Problems: 2nd Series

A.M. Kelley

An exploration of the impact of legal institutions on the evolution of capitalism, particularly the substantive content of the concept of reasonableness. The source and nature of one of Commons's most explosive concepts--the labor contract--is highlighted in the new preface by Joseph Dorfman. "In ... placing jurisprudence at the centre of economic inquiry... He was thereby the inventor of ... the economics of law." M. Blaug Great Economists Before Keynes

History of Labor in the United States

History

Americas

Proportional Representation

BiblioLife

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

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