Becoming evil : how ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing /
Political or social groups wanting to commit mass murder on the basis of racial, ethnic or religious differences are never hindered by a lack of willing executioners. In this book, social psychologist James Waller uncovers the internal and external factors that can lead ordinary people to commit ext...
| Основен автор: | Waller, James, 1961- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=129239 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Becoming evil. |
Съдържание:
- pt. 1. What are the origins of extraordinary human evil?
- A place called Mauthausen
- The nature of extraordinary human evil
- "Nits make lice"
- Killers of conviction: groups, ideology, and extraordinary evil
- Dovey's story
- The "mad Nazi": psychopathology, personality, and extraordinary evil
- The massacre at Babi Yar
- The dead end of demonization
- The invasion Dili
- pt. 2. Beyond demonization: how ordinary people commit extraordinary evil
- A model of extraordinary human evil
- What is the nature of human nature? Our ancestral shadow
- The Tonle Sap massacre
- Who are the killers? Identities of the perpetrators
- Death of a Guatemalan village
- What is the immediate social context? A culture of cruelty
- The church of Ntamara
- Who is the "other"? Social death of the victims
- The "safe area" of Srebrenica
- pt. 3. What have we learned and why does it matter?
- Can we be delivered from extraordinary evil?