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For some time the conventional wisdom in the interdisciplinary
field of Holocaust studies is that sociologists have neglected this
subject matter, but this is not really the case. In fact, there has
been substantial sociological work on the Holocaust, although this
scholarship has often been ignored or neglected, including in the
discipline of sociology itself. Sociology and the Holocaust brings
this scholarly tradition to light, and in doing so offers a
comprehensive synthesis of the vast historical and social science
literature on the before, during, and after of the Holocaust, a
tour d’horizon from an explicitly sociological perspective. As
such, the aim of the book is not simply to describe the chronology
of events that culminated in the deaths of six million Jews, but to
draw upon sociology’s “theoretical toolkit” to understand
these events and the ongoing legacy of the Holocaust
sociologically.
For some time the conventional wisdom in the interdisciplinary
field of Holocaust studies is that sociologists have neglected this
subject matter, but this is not really the case. In fact, there has
been substantial sociological work on the Holocaust, although this
scholarship has often been ignored or neglected, including in the
discipline of sociology itself. Sociology and the Holocaust brings
this scholarly tradition to light, and in doing so offers a
comprehensive synthesis of the vast historical and social science
literature on the before, during, and after of the Holocaust, a
tour d’horizon from an explicitly sociological perspective. As
such, the aim of the book is not simply to describe the chronology
of events that culminated in the deaths of six million Jews, but to
draw upon sociology’s “theoretical toolkit” to understand
these events and the ongoing legacy of the Holocaust
sociologically.
The new edition of this acclaimed text is an up-to-date
introduction to the key themes, research, and controversies in
disability studies. The authors' innovative approach offers
thorough coverage of: diverse theoretical perspectives;historical
context, from ancient times to the present; the impact of
disability throughout the life course; a range of physical,
sensory, and cognitive impairments; the place of disability in
popular culture; and ethical issues, such as genetic selection and
physician-assisted suicide. While giving prominence to the voices
of individuals, they provide a solid foundation for making sense of
disability not only as a personal experience, but also as a social
phenomenon.
The program of extermination Nazis called the Final Solution
took the lives of approximately six million Jews, amounting to
roughly 60 percent of European Jewry and a third of the world's
Jewish population. Studying the Holocaust from a sociological
perspective, Ronald J. Berger explains why the Final Solution
happened to a particular people for particular reasons; why the
Jews were, for the Nazis, the central enemy. Taking a unique
approach in its examination of the devastating event, The
Holocaust, Religion, and the Politics of Collective Memory fuses
history and sociology in its study of the Holocaust.
Berger's book illuminates the Holocaust as a social
construction. As historical scholarship on the Holocaust has
proliferated, perhaps no other tragedy or event has been as
thoroughly documented. Yet sociologists have paid less attention to
the Holocaust than historians and have been slower to fully
integrate the genocide into their corpus of disciplinary knowledge
and realize that this monumental tragedy affords opportunities to
examine issues that are central to main themes of sociological
inquiry.
Berger's aim is to counter sociologists who argue that the
genocide should be maintained as an area of study unto itself, as a
topic that should be segregated from conventional sociology courses
and general concerns of sociological inquiry. The author argues
that the issues raised by the Holocaust are central to social
science as well as historical studies.
This groundbreaking text makes an intervention on behalf of
disability studies into the broad field of qualitative inquiry.
Ronald Berger and Laura Lorenz introduce readers to a range of
issues involved in doing qualitative research on disabilities by
bringing together a collection of scholarly work that supplements
their own contributions and covers a variety of qualitative
methods: participant observation, interviewing and interview
coding, focus groups, autoethnography, life history, narrative
analysis, content analysis, and participatory visual methods. The
chapters are framed in terms of the relevant methodological issues
involved in the research, bringing in substantive findings to
illustrate the fruits of the methods. In doing so, the book covers
a range of physical, sensory, and cognitive impairments. This work
resonates with themes in disability studies such as emancipatory
research, which views research as a collaborative effort with
research subjects whose lives are enhanced by the process and
results of the work. It is a methodological approach that requires
researchers to be on guard against exploiting informants for the
purpose of professional aggrandizement and to engage in a process
of ongoing self-reflection to clear themselves of personal and
professional biases that may interfere with their ability to hear
and empathize with others.
for the design of control programs; in extreme cases (as dis cussed
below, by Fine et al., this volume, and elsewhere) it can happen
that immunization programs, although they protect vaccinated
individuals, actually increase the overall incidence of a
particular disease. The possibility that many nonhuman animal
populations may be regulated by parasitic infections is another
topic where it may be argued that conventional disciplinary
boundaries have retarded investigation. While much ecological
research has been devoted to exploring the extent to which
competition or predator-prey interactions may regulate natural
populations or set their patterns of geographical distribution, few
substan tial studies have considered the possibility that
infectious diseases may serve as regulatory agents (1,8). On the
other hand, the many careful epidemiological studies of the trans
mission and maintenance of parasitic infections in human and other
animal populations usually assume the host population density to be
set by other considerations, and not dynamically engaged with the
disease (see, for example, (1,2)). With all these considerations in
mind, the Dahlem Workshop from which this book derives aimed to
weave strands together -- testing theoretical analysis against
empirical facts and patterns, and identifying outstanding problems
-- in pursuit of a better un derstanding of the overall population
biology of parasitic in fections. For the purpose of the workshop,
the term "parasite" was de fined widely to include viruses,
bacteria, protozoans, fungi, and helminths."
This groundbreaking text makes an intervention on behalf of
disability studies into the broad field of qualitative inquiry.
Ronald Berger and Laura Lorenz introduce readers to a range of
issues involved in doing qualitative research on disabilities by
bringing together a collection of scholarly work that supplements
their own contributions and covers a variety of qualitative
methods: participant observation, interviewing and interview
coding, focus groups, autoethnography, life history, narrative
analysis, content analysis, and participatory visual methods. The
chapters are framed in terms of the relevant methodological issues
involved in the research, bringing in substantive findings to
illustrate the fruits of the methods. In doing so, the book covers
a range of physical, sensory, and cognitive impairments. This work
resonates with themes in disability studies such as emancipatory
research, which views research as a collaborative effort with
research subjects whose lives are enhanced by the process and
results of the work. It is a methodological approach that requires
researchers to be on guard against exploiting informants for the
purpose of professional aggrandizement and to engage in a process
of ongoing self-reflection to clear themselves of personal and
professional biases that may interfere with their ability to hear
and empathize with others.
On March 8/9, 1976 a workshop on "Mathematical Models in Medicine"
was held at Mainz (German Federal Republic) by the group of "Mathe-
matical Models" of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fUr Medizinische Doku-
mentation, Informatik und Statistik. Purpose of this conference was
to bring together experts from the GFR and neighbouring countries
working in this field to evaluate possibilities and limits of this
area of research in discussions with interested participants. This
issue of Lecture Notes contains the invited contributions as well
as the relevan~ remarks made by the discussants. Corresponding to
the aims of the workshop the contributors had been encouraged to
demon- strate their mathematical models in the light of actual
applied examples. It had been our intention to restrict attention
to a small number of specific areas in order to achieve a
concentrated in depth treatment in these restricted areas. The
areas chosen contain two - Epidemio- logy and Cell Models - which
in the organisers feeling are not yet as well established in
Continental Europe and one - Pharmacokinetic- with a more direct
appeal to applied workers. While in the Epidemio- logy of
infectious and parasitic diseases today strategies of control and
eradication are gaining importance, the cell models are concerned
with explaining the modes of genesis of cancerous growth and the
kinetics and interactions within multi-cell structures.
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