Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt

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Routledge, 01.07.2016 - 560 Seiten
First Published in 1978. 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.
 

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List of Tables Preface
4
Some constants and variables Chapter 1 Recurring elements in moral codes 1 Starting points
9
Authority and the challenge to authority
18
The division of labor
29
the permutations of equality
33
Concluding observations
37
The Moral Authority of suffering and injustice 1 Preliminary remarks
37
Asceticism
37
Size and composition of the industrial work force
Wages and workers conceptions of the wage relationship
Elite and masses among workers
The common liability to misfortune
Relationships with superiors and other workers
Some sources of workingclass culture
Images of the future
Political and economic action

The Untouchables
37
Concentration camps
37
Stifling the sense of injustice
The rejection of suffering and oppression 1 The issues
Cultural and social aspects
Moral autonomy and human personality
Freudian interpretations
German workers 18481920
German workers in the revolution of 1848
Strains on the guilds
The proletariat
Articulate diagnoses
Workers behavior in the revolutionary period
Nationalism and the workers
Social and cultural trends before 1914
Identification with the Empire
Militance and apathy in the Ruhr before 1914
The reformist revolution 19181920
The radical thrust
The coal miners
some comparisons
Germany 19181920
the Nazi example
Moral relativism
Inevitability and the sense of injustice
The iron and steelworkers
reciprocity as fact ideology and ideal
Index
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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.

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