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The Social Roots of Discrimination - The Case of the Jews (Hardcover)
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The Social Roots of Discrimination - The Case of the Jews (Hardcover)
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The Social Roots of Discrimination explains the phenomenon of
anti-Semitism. In this classic volume, Peretz F. Bernstein looks
for objective reasons why anti-Semitism flourished in European
countries. Some civilized people would consider the notion of race
uncivilized, but the existence of different races and the
inequality of races with their specific race characteristics and on
top of that the existence of superior and inferior human races was
accepted as a fact of life and as a scientific truth long before
the Nazis came to power. Although there is a marked difference in
dealing with anti-Semitism in continental Europe in 1920 and the
anti-Semitism in, for instance, the US in 2000, Berstein's ideas
remain valuable.Starting from a concrete problem, anti-Semitism in
Central Europe, Bernstein puts anti-Semitism in a general
sociological theoretical framework. Far from limiting himself to
fruitless elaborations on the common perceived unpleasant
characteristics of Jews, he recognizes that the group is
heterogeneous and that the usual arguments to justify anti-Semitism
do not have any general validity, although they may hold for some
specific individuals of the hated group, like individual members of
any group may be less pleasant. Bernstein's ideas remain
valuable.Bernstein tries to explain the hatred of Jews as the
working of a more general mechanism--one that has nothing to do
specifically with of Jews as a collective or as individuals. In
doing so Bernstein attempts to sketch a general theory of social
groups and conflicts between groups. The Social Roots of
Discrimination gives an important message both for social
scientists and for all intellectuals who are concerned with the
strifes between nations, races, and social groups.
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