Bit' ili ne bit'

"To beat or not to beat?" - The last book of the outstanding Russian social scientist Igor Semenovich Kon, written shortly before his death. In this book, based on numerous international and domestic anthropological, sociological, historical, psychological, educational, and other sexological research, the author tries to give an overview of corporal punishment of children as a social and cultural phenomenon. What is their social and pedagogical meaning, how effective they are and why all of...