SOC 08399Sociology of the Holocaust - WI

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This course primarily deals with structural and experiential dimensions of the genocidal process affecting the European Jews, their ethnicity, culture and religious communality after 1933. Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, prisoners of conscience, Russian prisoners of war, the Polish intelligentsia, who with the Jews, became a subject of Nazi persecution are also among those remembered. The Holocaust or Shoah will provide a model for compassionate insight into the experience of other persecuted ethnic and religious minorities or any who suffer disadvantage due to long-standing discrimination, such as women and homosexuals. Special emphasis will be given to understanding the interpersonal processes which are part of survival and transcendence of situations where we find society against the self.