SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Friedrich Paulus, Unthinkable, Historikerstreit

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

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Sociology notes week 20: berger by looking for levels of reality other than those given i official interpretations of society sociologists must critically examine human conduct. France vs. vietnam: after france"s defeat against vietnam was divided into the northern pro- communist regime and a southern pro-western regime. American"s gulf of tonkin resolution led to full-scale us involvement in the north vs. south vietnam war: end of golden age . Why people kill systematically: solzhenitsyn questioned whether people were born evil after the stalin prison guard cruelty. Same human being under different circumstances an be totally different. Humans go back and forth between good and evil. Holocaust lies in a uniquely german eliminationist anti-semitism. Anti-semitism moved ordinary germans to slaughter jews not economic hardship or sociological pressures. Ideas that jews were pervasive in germany induced ordinary. Germans to kill defenseless jews systematically without pity. Sui generis event conditions created by incubating, pervasive, racist, eliminationist anti-semitism of german culture.