Overview

The program of extermination Nazis called the Final Solution took the lives of approximately six million Jews, amounting to roughly 60 percent of European Jewry and a third of the world's Jewish population. When one adds the murder of Gypsies, Poles, Slavs, Soviet civilians, and prisoners of war, gays, the disabled and mentally ill, among others--the number of innocent dead is far greater. Ronald J. Berger does not intend to create a hierarchy of pain or minimize the suffering many endured. Rather, he means to point out that the Final Solution happened to a particular people for particular reasons and that the Jews were, for the Nazis, the central enemy.

As historical scholarship on the Holocaust has proliferated, perhaps no other tragedy or event has been as thoroughly documented. Sociologists have paid less attention to the Holocaust than historians and have been slower to fully integrate the genocide into their corpus of disciplinary knowledge and realize that this monumental tragedy affords opportunities to examine issues that are central to some main themes of sociological inquiry.

Berger's book fuses history and sociology; it illuminates the Holocaust as a social construction. Berger's aim is to counter sociologists who argue that the genocide should be maintained as an area of study unto itself, as a topic that should be segregated from conventional sociology courses and general concerns of sociological inquiry. Berger argues that the issues raised by the Holocaust are central to social science as well as historical studies.

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Author:   Ronald J. Berger
Publisher:   Transaction Publishers
Imprint:   Transaction Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781412843041

ISBN 10:   1412843049
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   15 February 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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