Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt by Moore, Barrington Jr.

Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333247839)

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Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt by Moore, Barrington Jr.

Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt

$109.99
Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt by Moore, Barrington Jr.

Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt

$109.99
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Barrington Jr. Moore, Jr.
ISBN-10: 0333247833
ISBN-13: 9780333247839
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/27/1978
Pages: 540
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.89lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.38d
By Barrington Jr. Moore
By Barrington Jr. Moore
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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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