The Wages of Sin: America's Dilemma of Profit Against Humanity

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This is an investigation into what has gone wrong with the social fabric of American society. Huer postulates two models of society: one that pursues profit and self-interest, and the other that cherishes community values. Huer hold that the two types of ethics cannot coexist in society. One prominent result of the current dominance of the profit-driven model of behaviour is that American society increasingly substituted reality with illusion, happiness with pleasure, strength with brute force - highlighted by the now-obsessive demands for entertainment and overconsumption, and frequent calls for the warlike ventures. "The Wages of sin" is a social critique that gives historical insights and suggests remedies to the current societal malaise.

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JON HUER is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. He is also the author of Tenure for Socrates: A Study in the Betrayal of the American Professor (Bergin & Garvey, 1990), The Great Art Hoax, The Fallacies of Social Science, and The Dead End.