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Inside concentration camps :

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0745663354

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0745663362

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9780745663357

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9780745663364

Title Proper

Inside concentration camps :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

social life at the extremes /

First Statement of Responsibility

Maja Suderland ; translated by Jessica Spengler.

Edition Statement

English ed.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Malden, MA :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Polity Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2013.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiii, 336 pages ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Originally published in German as: Ein Extremfall des Sozialen. Frankfurt : Campus Verlag, 2009.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-326) and index.

Text of Note

pt. I. Introduction. 1. Topic and research question -- 2. The "Third Reich" and the Nazi concentration camps : The establishment of the Nazi concentration camps: historical, social, and legal background ; Germany and its forcible detention camps ; The organizational structure of the concentration camps ; The concentration camp SS and guards ; Summary: A complex interrelationship -- pt. II. Sociological avenues of inquiry. 3. Introductory comments on the disciplinary context and methods : Empirical material and methodological approach ; The impossibility of representing reality and the special characteristics of Holocaust literature ; The relationship between historical scholarship and sociology -- 4. Sociological orientations : Preliminary remarks: The sociology of Pierre Bourdieu and the use of other central theoretical ideas ; The "basic concepts" of society ; Concentration camps ; A theoretical perspective: The complex society of the "Third Reich" and social reality in the forcible detention camps -- pt. III. The social world of the Nazi concentration camps. 5. Camp life : Arrival and registration of the prisoners at the camp or: How the "practical logic" of the camp gradually revealed itself to the prisoners ; Prisoner life: recurring processes ; Three levels of sociality ; Summary: A micro-sociological view of the intricacies of complex camp life or: How many realities were there? -- 6. Prisoner society : Fragmentation, dissociation, community-building: social processes ; Regular prisoners, armband wearers, camp aristocracy: the mass and the elite ; Men, women, children or: What's still normal here? ; Summary: An examination of the structure of the prisoner society or: The significance of similarity and difference -- pt. IV. Social libido. 7. The constitution of social identity in the concentration camps: the concepts of individuality and the importance of social structures in a "topsy-turvy world."

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Text of Note

Maja Suderland takes the reader inside Nazi concentration camps and examines the everyday social life of prisoners - their daily activities and routines, the social relationships and networks they created and the strategies they developed to cope with the harsh conditions and the brutality of the guards.

General Material Designation

Extremfall des Sozialen.

Language (when part of a heading)

English

Concentration camp inmates-- Germany-- Social conditions.

Concentration camps-- Germany-- Sociological aspects.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

National socialism and sociology.

National socialism and sociology.

Germany.

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Suderland, Maja.

Spengler, Jessica.

Date of Transaction

20200822124722.0

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[Book]

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