From slavery to 9/11 readings in the sociology and social psychology of extreme situations
An edited collection of readings exploring sociological and social psychological analysis of extreme situations From Slavery to 9/11: Readings in the Sociology and Social Psychology of Extreme Situations explores the social structure of total institutions and extreme situations and survival and copi...
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Pearson
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Total Institutions and Extreme Situations. The Ultimate Limit / Bruno Bettelheim; Characteristics of Total Institutions / Erving Goffman; Extreme Situations / Bernard Rosenberg, Israel Gerver and F. William Howton; Bettelheim's Analysis of the Mass Society / Paul Marcus
- Chapter 2: Institutionalized Slavery in the United States. The Setting / Kenneth M. Stampp; Slavery and Personality / Stanley M. Elkins; Key Slaves and the Poverty of Paternalism / Michael Tadman; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass; Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl / Harriet A. Jacobs. Chapter 3: Concentration Camps German Concentration Camps / Bruno Bettelheim; Individual and Mass Behavior in Extreme Situations / Bruno Bettelheim; The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps / Terrence Des Pres; Experiences in a Concentration Camp / Viktor Frankl; The Drowned and the Saved / Primo Levi; Lessons Learned from Gentle Heroism: Women's Holocaust Narratives / Myrna Goldenberg
- Chapter 4: Prison. Panopticism / Michel Foucault; The Pains of Imprisonment / Gresham Sykes; Inmate Victimization / Hans Toch; Doing Time
- No Safe Haven: Stories of Women in Prison / Lori B. Girshick; The Pains of Imprisonment: Exploring a Classic Text with Contemporary Authors / John Riley; Jonestown as a Total Institution: Why Some People Chose Death over Escape from Peoples Temple / Phyllis Gardner, Mahmoud Sadri, James L. Williams
- Chapter 5: September 11, 2001. Voices of 9/11 First Responders: Patterns of Collective Resilience / Tovia G. Freedman; The 9/11 Terrorist Attack on the World Trade Center: A New York Psychologist's Personal Experiences and Professional Perspective / Judy Kuriansky; Rituals of Solidarity and Security in the Wake of Terrorist Attack / Randall Collins.
- Chapter 6: Hurricane Katrina. Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina: Social Differences in Human Responses to Disaster / James R. Elliott and Jeremy Pais; Hurricane Katrina: The Making of Unworthy Disaster Victims / Gail Garfield; Survival and Death in New Orleans: An Empirical Look at the Human Impact of Katrina / Patrick Sharkey Kevin; Owens
- Overcoming Katrina: African American Voices from the Crescent City and Beyond / D'Ann R. Penner and Keith C. Ferdinand
- Chapter 7: Comparative Genocide. The Uniqueness of the Holocaust: The Historical Dimension / Steven T. Katz; Paradigms of Genocide: The Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, and Contemporary Mass Destructions / Robert Melson Government-Planned Genocide
- The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response / Peter Balakian; Common Fate, Different Experience: Gender-Specific Aspects of the Armenian Genocide, 1915
- 1917 / Katharine Derderian; Victimization, Survival and the Impunity of Forced Exile: A Case Study from the Rwandan Genocide / Frank M. Afflitto; Rwanda, Ethiopia and Cambodia: Links, Faultlines and Complexities in a Comparative Study of Genocide / Edward Kissi; Dissecting Darfur: Anatomy of a Genocide Debate / Darren Brunk.