Grovelling and other vices
the sociology of sycophancy
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Author
Publication
2000 - Athlone Press, New Brunswick, NJ, New Jersey
Language
English
Word Count
46,000 words, Guess
Page Count
184 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL43520M
- ISBN-100485115441
- OCLC Control Number41662605
- OCLC Control Numbergrovellingotherv0000silb
- Library of Congress Control Number99037793
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- Goodreads2843266
Classifications
- DDC302.5/4
- LCCNX650.A44 S5513 2000
Description
"Grovelling receives its first sociological treatment in this widely acclaimed work by the eminent German sociologist, Alphons Silbermann. According to Silbermann, grovelling, or arse-licking, is not a character trait but a model for action. It operates at the very centre of social mechanisms; and it is a process upon which any attempt to understand human arrangement must focus.". "Furthermore, from analysing the arts of grovelling, sycophancy, duplicity and obsequiousness, we learn much about society, its ways of lies and flattery, cunning and deception, hypocrisy and baseness, false adulation and deliberate self-degradation. The author explains the purpose of grovelling and what you can do to protect yourself from it, and the methods of taking and avoiding the groveller's role."--BOOK JACKET.
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