BSC/Mannheim Centre seminar series
The Predatory Society: The Moral Economy of Post-Modernity
Susanne Karstedt, Department of Criminology, Keele University
Crimes of the respectable middle classes - the very groups who
consider themselves and are generally regarded as the pillars of
the normative consensus in society - only recently have attracted
the attention of criminologists. Simultaneously, complaints from
business and administration about an increasing laxity of morals in
these groups are mounting. To what extent do modern market and
consumer societies endanger the very foundations of their
normative and moral order? Are rampant individualism, autonomy
and individual self-assertion to be made responsible for the erosion
of norms and for the suspension of legal and moral norms as
guidelines of behaviour? Susanne Karstedt explores developments
and paradoxes of the "moral economy" of modern consumer and
market societies.
British Society of Criminology Southern Branch/LSE Mannheim
Centre Seminar Room D502, LSE, Clement House, Aldwych WC2
6.30pm November 21, 2001
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