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An edited collection of readings exploring sociological and social psychological analysis of extreme situations From Slavery to 9/11: Readings in the Sociology and Social Psychology of Extreme Situationsexplores the social structure of extreme situations, total institutions, and survival and the coping mechanisms used by the people who have been affected by these institutions and events. Learning Goals Upon completing this book, readers will be able to: Explore historical and contemporary events Make connections between the events and instituti... MORE

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Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Total Institutions and Extreme Situations	p. 6
The Ultimate Limit	p. 11
Characteristics of Total Institutions	p. 19
Extreme Situations	p. 28
Bettelheim's Analysis of the Mass Society	p. 31
Institutionalized Slavery in the United States	p. 42
The Setting	p. 45
Slavery and Personality	p. 51
Key Slaves and the Poverty of Paternalism	p. 60
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass	p. 74
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl	p. 81
Concentration Camps	p. 86
German Concentration Camps	p. 92
Individual and Mass Behavior in Extreme Situations	p. 98
The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps	p. 104
Experiences in a Concentration Camp	p. 116
The Drowned and the Saved	p. 122
Lessons Learned from Gentle Heroism: Women's Holocaust Narratives	p. 130
Prison	p. 144
Panopticism	p. 148
The Pains of Imprisonment	p. 152
Inmate Victimization	p. 159
Doing Time - No Safe Haven: Stories of Women in Prison	p. 164
The Pains of Imprisonment: Exploring a Classic Text with Contemporary Authors	p. 173
Jonestown as a Total Institution: Why Some People Chose Death over Escape from Peoples Temple	p. 185
September 11, 2001	p. 193
Voices of 9/11 First Responders: Patterns of Collective Resilience	p. 197
The 9/11 Terrorist Attack on the World Trade Center: A New York Psychologist's Personal Experiences and Professional Perspective	p. 205
Rituals of Solidarity and Security in the Wake of Terrorist Attack	p. 217
Hurricane Katrina	p. 229
Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina: Social Differences in Human Responses to Disaster	p. 233
Hurricane Katrina: The Making of Unworthy Disaster Victims	p. 242
Survival and Death in New Orleans: An Empirical Look at the Human Impact of Katrina	p. 253
Kevin Owens - Overcoming Katrina: African American Voices from the Crescent City and Beyond	p. 257
Comparative Genocide	p. 270
The Uniqueness of the Holocaust: The Historical Dimension	p. 276
Paradigms of Genocide: The Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, and Contemporary Mass Destructions	p. 287
Government-Planned Genocide-The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response	p. 298
Common Fate, Different Experience: Gender-Specific Aspects of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1917	p. 310
Victimization, Survival and the Impunity of Forced Exile: A Case Study from the Rwandan Genocide	p. 331
Rwanda, Ethiopia and Cambodia: Links, Faultlines and Complexities in a Comparative Study of Genocide	p. 343
Dissecting Darfur: Anatomy of a Genocide Debate	p. 353
References	p. 372
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Sidney Langer holds a Bachelors degree in Psychology and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology.� His areas of specialization include crime, delinquency, and the sociology of deviant behavior.� Dr. Langer is professor of sociology at Kean University in New Jersey, where he has been a faculty member since 1975.� Dr. Langer is a past recipient of Outstanding Teacher of the Year, awarded by Alpha Sigma Lambda- The National Honor Society for Adult Learners in Continuing Higher Education- Alpha Kappa Chapter of Kean University.�

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