February 2015

The sociology and social science of ‘evil’: Is the conception of pedophilia ‘evil’?

This paper approaches ‘evil’ from sociological and social science perspectives, using them to increase our insight into the concept of ‘evil’ since they have long neglected direct analyses of ‘evil’. For example, sociology has focused on questions of the good, treating its other as an absence or a residual category. Durkheim suggested to avoid using common sense categorisations,...

Author(s): Aliraza Javaid