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Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt

The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt

By: Barrington Moore, Jr

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Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt

The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt

By: Barrington Moore, Jr

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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1315496518

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Moral Purity and Persecution in History

By: Barrington Moore Jr.

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Moral Purity and Persecution in History

By: Barrington Moore Jr.

The intellectual scope and courage to contend with the largest puzzles of human existence and organization distinguish great social thinkers. Barrington Moore's Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy was a foundational work of historical sociology that influenced a generation of social scientists and, decades later, continues to be widely read and taught. Here, Moore takes up the same tools of historical comparison to investigate why groups of people kill and torture each other. His answer is arrestingly simple: people persecute those whom they perceive as polluting due to their "impure" religious, political, or economic ideas. Moore's search begins with the Old Testament's restrictions on sexual behavior, idolatry, diet, and handling unclean objects. He argues that religious authorities seeking to distinguish the ancient Hebrews from competing groups invented, along with monotheism, the association of impure things with moral failure and the violation of God's will. This allowed people to view those holding competing ideas as contaminated and, more important, contaminating. Moore moves next to the French Wars of Religion, in which Protestants and Catholics massacred each other over the control of purity, and the French Revolution, which perfected terror and secularized purity. He then combs the major Asian religions and finds--to his surprise--that violent efforts to eradicate the "impure" were largely absent before substantial Western influence. Moore's provocative conclusion is that monotheism--with its monopoly on virtue and failure to provide supernatural scapegoats--is responsible for some of the most virulent forms of intolerance and is a major cause of human nastiness and suffering. Moore does not say that the monotheist tradition was the primary source of Nazism, Stalinism, Maoism, violent Hindu fundamentalism, or ethnic cleansing in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, but he does identify it as an indispensable cause because it justified, encouraged, and spread vindictive persecution throughout the world. Once again, Moore has drawn on his comprehensive understanding of history and talent for speaking directly to readers to address one of the most crucial questions about human past and future. This book is for anyone who has ever heard the word genocide and asked why.

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Princeton University Press

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1400823463

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Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World

By: Barrington Moore

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Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World

By: Barrington Moore

This classic work of comparative history explores why some countries have developed as democracies and others as fascist or communist dictatorships Originally published in 1966, this classic text is a comparative survey of some of what Barrington Moore considers the major and most indicative world economies as they evolved out of pre-modern political systems into industrialism. But Moore is not ultimately concerned with explaining economic development so much as exploring why modes of development produced different political forms that managed the transition to industrialism and modernization. Why did one society modernize into a "relatively free," democratic society (by which Moore means England)? Why did others metamorphose into fascist or communist states? His core thesis is that in each country, the relationship between the landlord class and the peasants was a primary influence on the ultimate form of government the society arrived at upon arrival in its modern age. “Throughout the book, there is the constant play of a mind that is scholarly, original, and imbued with the rarest gift of all, a deep sense of human reality . . . This book will influence a whole generation of young American historians and lead them to problems of the greatest significance.” —The New York Review of Books

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Beacon Press

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0807097047

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9780807097045

Privacy: Studies in Social and Cultural History

Studies in Social and Cultural History

By: Barrington Moore, Jr

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Studies in Social and Cultural History

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This title was first published in 1984. Focusing on Brazil, this text covers issues such as: the legacy of colour; social realities; and diversions and assertive behaviour.

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1351696769

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Moral Aspects of Economic Growth, and Other Essays

By: Barrington Moore, Jr.

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Moral Aspects of Economic Growth, and Other Essays

By: Barrington Moore, Jr.

Barrington Moore, Jr., one of the most distinguished thinkers in critical theory and historical sociology, was long concerned with the prospects for freedom and decency in industrial society. The product of decades of reflection on issues of authority, inequality, and injustice, this volume analyzes fluctuating moral beliefs and behavior in political and economic affairs at different points in history, from the early Middle Ages in England to the prospects for liberalism under twentieth-century Soviet socialism. The social sources of antisocial behavior; principles of social inequality; and the origins, enemies, and possibilities of rational discussion in public affairs—these are among the topics Moore considers as he seeks to uncover the historical causes of some accepted forms of morality and to assess their social consequences. The keynote essay examines how moral codes grew out of commercial practices in England from medieval times through the industrial revolution. Moore pays special attention to conceptions of honesty and the temptation to evade that inform the volume as a whole. In the other essays, he considers particular political issues, viewing "political" in its broadest sense as an unequal distribution of power and authority that carries a strong moral charge. Free of preaching and advocacy, his work offers a rare reasonable assessment of the morality of major social institutions over time.

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Cornell University Press

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1501726439

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Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt

The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt

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Privacy

Studies in Social and Cultural History

By: Barrington Moore Jr.

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Studies in Social and Cultural History

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This title was first published in 1984. Focusing on Brazil, this text covers issues such as: the legacy of colour; social realities; and diversions and assertive behaviour.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000951642

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Revival: Soviet Politics: The Dilemma of Power (1950)

The Role of Ideas in Social Change

By: Barrington Moore, Jr

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Revival: Soviet Politics: The Dilemma of Power (1950)

The Role of Ideas in Social Change

By: Barrington Moore, Jr

First published in 1950, this book investigates the interaction between Communist ideology and Soviet political practices from the period of Lenin's theoretical formulations to the contemporary Soviet bureaucratic state.

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Privacy: Studies in Social and Cultural History

Studies in Social and Cultural History

By: Barrington Moore, Jr

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Studies in Social and Cultural History

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This title was first published in 1984. Focusing on Brazil, this text covers issues such as: the legacy of colour; social realities; and diversions and assertive behaviour.

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Moral Purity and Persecution in History

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Moral Aspects of Economic Growth, and Other Essays

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Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World

By: Barrington Moore

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Day Trips from Houston

Getaways Less Than Two Hours Away

By: Carol Barrington,Shifra Stein

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Day Trips from Houston

Getaways Less Than Two Hours Away

By: Carol Barrington,Shifra Stein

Enjoy a welcome change of pace and discover a world you may not know exists in your own backyard. Day Trips describes hundreds of fascinating and exciting things to do, many free of charge and most within a two-hour drive of Houston. Book jacket.

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Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt

Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt

Moral Purity and Persecution in History

Moral Purity and Persecution in History

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

Privacy: Studies in Social and Cultural History

Privacy: Studies in Social and Cultural History

Moral Aspects of Economic Growth, and Other Essays

Moral Aspects of Economic Growth, and Other Essays

Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt

Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt

Privacy

Privacy

Revival: Soviet Politics: The Dilemma of Power (1950)

Revival: Soviet Politics: The Dilemma of Power (1950)

Privacy: Studies in Social and Cultural History

Privacy: Studies in Social and Cultural History

Moral Purity and Persecution in History

Moral Purity and Persecution in History

Moral Aspects of Economic Growth, and Other Essays

Moral Aspects of Economic Growth, and Other Essays

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

Day Trips from Houston

Day Trips from Houston

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