ISBN:
9781003814108
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (240 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
940.5318
Keywords:
Sociology
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Personal and Professional Roots -- A Second-Generation Perspective -- Terms of the Inquiry -- The Indifference of a Discipline -- 2. On the Shoulders of Giants -- Sociologists of the 1930s and 1940s -- The Trifocal Lens of Classical Theory -- A General Theory and Case Study of Structure and Agency -- 3. Antisemitism and Pseudoscientific Racism -- The Development of Christian Antisemitism -- The Confluence of Antisemitism and Racism -- Nazi Eugenics and the Medicalization of Genocide -- 4. The Class Composition and Economics of Nazism -- Nazi Party Membership and Election Studies -- Economic Exclusion, Aryanization, and Mass Theft -- Nazi and Corporate Enterprises -- 5. The Nazi State, Bureaucracy, and Response of the Jews -- The Inner Circle of the Nazi State -- Nazi Cultural Organizations -- From the Nuremberg Laws to the Final Solution -- Ghettoization -- Open-Air Shootings and Concentration Camps -- 6. The Response of the Allies -- The Prewar Period -- The Wartime Period -- The Immediate Postwar Period -- 7. National Collective Memories of the Holocaust -- The Federal Republic of Germany -- Israel -- The United States -- Poland -- 8. Is It Happening Here? -- The New Authoritarianism -- The Question of Fascism -- The White Power and Patriot Movements -- The Radicalization of the Republican Party -- Concluding Reflections on Contemporary Antisemitism -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
"For some time the conventional wisdom in the interdisciplinary field of Holocaust studies is that sociologists have neglected this subject matter, but this is not really the case. In fact, there has been substantial sociological work on the Holocaust, although this scholarship has often been ignored or neglected, including in the discipline of sociology itself. Sociology and the Holocaust brings this scholarly tradition to light, and in doing so offers a comprehensive synthesis of the vast historical and social science literature on the before, during, and after of the Holocaust, a tour d'horizon from an explicitly sociological perspective. As such, the aim of the book is not simply to describe the chronology of events that culminated in the deaths of six million Jews, but to draw upon sociology's "theoretical toolkit" to understand these events and the ongoing legacy of the Holocaust sociologically"--
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