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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Transaction Introduction -- Introduction -- Part I: The Sociological Perspective -- Chapter 1: Salvation, Monism, and Social Contraction -- Salvation and Social Behavior Systems -- Monistic Theodicy and Social Contraction -- Monistic Contraction and Correction (Tikkun) -- Chapter 2: The Social Contract and Social Contraction -- The Guilt-Debt Contract -- The Issachar and Zebulun Contract -- The Ideological-Historical Roots of the Issachar and Zebulun Model -- The People of Form and the People of Matte -- Chapter 3: Contractional Alterism vs. Contractual Altruism -- Balanced (Symbiotic) Alter-centered Contraction and the Mutual-AidTradition -- Imbalanced (Parasitic) Alter-centered Contraction and the "Shnor"Tradition -- Alter-centered Salvation and Messianic Universalism -- Chapter 4: Structural Deviance and the Mono vs. Multiple Ideallabeling System -- Social Contraction and Organic Solidarity -- Social Contraction and Functional Reciprocity -- Chapter 5: Social Crisis and the Mono vs. Multiple Ideal-labeling System -- Supermaterialism, Leisure, and Deviance -- The Convergence of Zebulun and Issachar and the Emergence of Hasidism -- The Hasidic Relabeling Revolution -- Part II: The Sodal' Psychological Perspective -- Chapter 6: Alter-centered Individualism and Interpersonal Contraotion -- Interpersonal Contraction and Active Quietism -- The Principle of Mutual Emulation and the Anatomy of "Chutzpa" -- Chapter 7: The Prussian-Oedipal Father vs. the Maggid's Contracting Father -- Chapter 8: Assertiveness Training for " I or Thou" Behavior -- Chapter 9: Alterism, Individual Freedom, and ''Exclusion" Systems -- Absurd Freedom and Independence -- The Cursed Blessing of Enforced Freedom -- Intrusion and the Total Institution for Exclusion

Person perception was studied experimentally to test certain predictions following from Rotenberg's theory concerning the effects of the Calvinist conception of Man on Western culture. Americans scored significantly higher than Israelis on a Protestant ethic scale. When American and Israeli subjects were asked to rate, on the basis of past information, the probabilities of a person being at present a mental patient ("damned') or a successful businessman ("elect'", Americans were consistently more deterministic in their interpersonal perceptions than Israelis. The hypothesis that in retrospective labeling increases in probability ratings of the outcomes, once a label has been assigned, will be greater among Americans than Israelis was not confirmed. Implications for future research are briefly discussed.