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BL
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880674
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Extremfall des Sozialen.English
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| Main Entry
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Suderland, Maja.
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| Title & Author
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Inside concentration camps : : social life at the extremes /\ Maja Suderland ; translated by Jessica Spengler.
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| Edition Statement
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English ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, UK ;Malden, MA :: Polity Press,, ©2013.
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xiii, 336 pages ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0745663354
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: 0745663362
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: 9780745663357
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: 9780745663364
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| Notes
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Originally published in German as: Ein Extremfall des Sozialen. Frankfurt : Campus Verlag, 2009.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-326) and index.
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| Contents
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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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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.
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Concentration camp inmates-- Germany-- Social conditions.
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Concentration camps-- Germany-- Sociological aspects.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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National socialism and sociology.
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National socialism and sociology.
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Germany.
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| Dewey Classification
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940.53185
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| LC Classification
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D805.G3S845513 2013
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| Added Entry
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Spengler, Jessica.
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