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Fairness and Groups (Hardcover)
Margaret Ann Neale, Elizabeth A. Mannix, Elizabeth Mullen; Series edited by Margaret Ann Neale
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R3,933
Discovery Miles 39 330
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Concerns about justice and fairness are ubiquitous within and
between communities, social groups, organizations and states.
People are concerned with the fairness of how decisions are made,
how outcomes are allocated between and within groups, and how they
are treated by authorities. This volume introduces cutting-edge
justice theorizing and research at the intersection of justice and
groups. Contributors to this volume explore topics such as: how
group members come to have a shared understanding of the level of
fairness within their group (i.e., justice climate), how social
emotions influence justice judgments, the relationships between
trust, respect, fairness, and group-serving behavior, resource
allocation, reactions to injustice, appropriate ways to restore
justice following transgressions, and perceptions of and remedies
for intergroup inequality. "The Fairness and Groups" volume in the
"Research on Managing Groups and Teams" series will be of interest
to students and scholars in psychology, sociology, law and
organizational behavior.
"War Stories" chronicles 53 personal testimonies of virtually every
major event from World War II by residents of New Orleans-from a
Polish army officer who was defending his homeland the day of the
German invasion to a member of the honor guard aboard the U.S.S.
Missouri the day the Japanese signed the surrender papers. This
one-of-a-kind memorial represents journalist Elizabeth Mullener's
12-year dedication to preserving eyewitness accounts of the most
devastating conflict in human history.
Henry Lasoski, an officer in the Polish army, was there on the
first day of World War II, thrusting his bayonet awkwardly into a
German soldier hours after Hitler's army invaded his homeland in
1939. And Jacques Smith was there on the last, a member of the
honor guard aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay when the Japanese
signed the documents of surrender in 1945. From start to finish,
this chronicle of fifty-three personal testimonies illuminates the
Second World War in a way no mere accumulation of facts can. In a
journalistic tour de force, Elizabeth Mullener over the course of
twelve years found eyewitnesses to virtually every major event of
World War II, and she found them all in one American city- New
Orleans. Some are natives of the city and some are not, a testament
to the upheaval of war and its power to scatter people around the
globe. The people she writes about are not grand heroes or prime
movers. They are young men shaking in their foxholes, young women
stitching up wounded soldiers, and children facing a world gone
topsy-turvy. And they saw it all. They witnessed the London Blitz
and the siege of Stalingrad; the attack on Pearl Harbor and the
Bataan Death March; the battle of Iwo Jima and the Nuremberg
trials; the Normandy invasion and parties at the USO. Their
memories are powerful. Harold Eck recalls sharks grazing his legs
as he treaded water for four days after the USS Indianapolis sank
in the Pacific Ocean. Anthony DeLucca saw bodies stacked like
cordwood at Buchenwald. Christine Strevinsky slid a knife through
the neck of a Nazi commandant at the age of nine. Frank Rosato
played ""The Missouri Waltz"" for Harry Truman at Potsdam. All
poignantly related through Mullener's graceful and compelling
prose, the episodes in War Stories provide an unusually intimate
history of World War II and a direct, visceral connection to the
central event of the twentieth century.
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