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From Slavery To 9/11 Readings in the Sociology and Social Psychology of Extreme Situations

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ISBN-10: 0205731341

ISBN-13: 9780205731343

Edition: 2012

Authors: Sidney Langer

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Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Pearson Higher Education & Professional Group
Publication date: 1/10/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 7.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Total Institutions and Extreme Situations
The Ultimate Limit
Characteristics of Total Institutions
Extreme Situations
Bettelheim's Analysis of the Mass Society
Institutionalized Slavery in the United States
The Setting
Slavery and Personality
Key Slaves and the Poverty of Paternalism
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Concentration Camps
German Concentration Camps
Individual and Mass Behavior in Extreme Situations
The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps
Experiences in a Concentration Camp
The Drowned and the Saved
Lessons Learned from Gentle Heroism: Women's Holocaust Narratives
Prison
Panopticism
The Pains of Imprisonment
Inmate Victimization
Doing Time - No Safe Haven: Stories of Women in Prison
The Pains of Imprisonment: Exploring a Classic Text with Contemporary Authors
Jonestown as a Total Institution: Why Some People Chose Death over Escape from Peoples Temple
September 11, 2001
Voices of 9/11 First Responders: Patterns of Collective Resilience
The 9/11 Terrorist Attack on the World Trade Center: A New York Psychologist's Personal Experiences and Professional Perspective
Rituals of Solidarity and Security in the Wake of Terrorist Attack
Hurricane Katrina
Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina: Social Differences in Human Responses to Disaster
Hurricane Katrina: The Making of Unworthy Disaster Victims
Survival and Death in New Orleans: An Empirical Look at the Human Impact of Katrina
Kevin Owens - Overcoming Katrina: African American Voices from the Crescent City and Beyond
Comparative Genocide
The Uniqueness of the Holocaust: The Historical Dimension
Paradigms of Genocide: The Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, and Contemporary Mass Destructions
Government-Planned Genocide-The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response
Common Fate, Different Experience: Gender-Specific Aspects of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1917
Victimization, Survival and the Impunity of Forced Exile: A Case Study from the Rwandan Genocide
Rwanda, Ethiopia and Cambodia: Links, Faultlines and Complexities in a Comparative Study of Genocide
Dissecting Darfur: Anatomy of a Genocide Debate
References