Holocaust and sociology
TitleThe Holocaust and sociology
Author
Call number940.5318/0041
Object number05135D
Place of publicationEvanston, Illinois, United States
PublisherNorthwestern University Press
Year of publication
1999
Physical descriptionpp33-40
MaterialArticle
ISBN0810116669
NotesArticle from the book 'Lessons and legacies' Vol.111 pp33-40
Description
States that if sociologists were to take their leads from nonmembers of their guild such as Primo Levi, Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem, they could better do justice to two of their discipline's essential callings: the identification of regularity in human behaviour and the obligation to instruct about the contemporary world