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Injustice - (Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt) by Barrington Jr Moore & Jr (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- This is a book about why people so often put up with being the victims of their societies and why at other times they become very angry and try with passion and forcefulness to do something about their situation.
- About the Author: BARRINGTON MOORE, JR is a Lecturer in Sociology at Harvard University and Senior Research Fellow for the University's Russian Centre.
- 540 Pages
- Social Science, Sociology
- Series Name: Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt
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About the Book
An examination of the constants and variables of the sense of injustice displayed by ordinary people in various societies places special focus on the German working class between 1848 and 1920Book Synopsis
This is a book about why people so often put up with being the victims of their societies and why at other times they become very angry and try with passion and forcefulness to do something about their situation. I his most ambition book to date, Barrington Moore, Jr explores a large part of the world's experience with injustice and its understanding of it. In search of general elements behind the acceptance of injustice he discusses the Untouchables of India, Nazi concentration camps, and the Milgram experiments on obedience to authority.About the Author
BARRINGTON MOORE, JR is a Lecturer in Sociology at Harvard University and Senior Research Fellow for the University's Russian Centre. He was educated at Williams College, where he took a degree in Greek and Latin, and at Yale University where he gained a PhD in sociology. His book Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy received the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award in political science and the MacIver Award in sociology. He is also the author of Soviet Politics: The Dilemma of Power, Terror and Progress: USSR, Political Power and Social Theory and, with Robert P. Wolff and Herbert Marcuse, A Critique of Pure Tolerance. His most recent book, Reflections on the Causes of Human Misery and upon Certain Proposals to Eliminate Them, was given the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of Phi Beta Kappa.Dimensions (Overall): 8.5 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x 1.38 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.89 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 540
Series Title: Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt
Genre: Social Science
Sub-Genre: Sociology
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Theme: General
Format: Hardcover
Author: Barrington Jr Moore & Jr
Language: English
Street Date: September 27, 1978
TCIN: 91572797
UPC: 9780333247839
Item Number (DPCI): 247-33-7764
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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