Reluctant Witnesses: Survivors, Their Children, and the Rise of Holocaust Consciousness
In: Contemporary sociology, Band 45, Heft 3, S. 354-355
ISSN: 1939-8638
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In: Contemporary sociology, Band 45, Heft 3, S. 354-355
ISSN: 1939-8638
In: Contemporary sociology, Band 37, Heft 2, S. 176-177
ISSN: 1939-8638
In: International journal of politics, culture and society, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 153-158
ISSN: 0891-4486
In: Holocaust and genocide studies, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 324-326
ISSN: 1476-7937
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 60, Heft 1, S. 170-172
ISSN: 2325-7784
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 102, Heft 4, S. 1233-1234
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: Humanity & society, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 84-85
ISSN: 2372-9708
In: Social science quarterly, Band 76, Heft 1, S. 241-242
ISSN: 0038-4941
In: Critical sociology, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 134-137
ISSN: 1569-1632
In: Social science journal: official journal of the Western Social Science Association, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 244-245
ISSN: 0362-3319
In: Social science journal: official journal of the Western Social Science Association, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 100-102
ISSN: 0362-3319
In: American political science review, Band 79, Heft 4, S. 1217-1218
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 87, Heft 1, S. 166-167
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: The SAGE Handbook of European Studies, S. 587-601
In: Journal of classical sociology, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 179-207
ISSN: 1741-2897
Durkheim's classical understanding of anomie as a societal condition of dérèglement or derangement is compared and contrasted with the functionalist understanding of anomie as normlessness. Assumptions are examined in the two different versions of anomie regarding culture, norms, agency, the international context, collective consciousness, military law, and other issues pertaining to abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Major General Fay's report on the abuse at Abu Ghraib is analyzed in the context of this sociological scrutiny regarding the meanings of anomie. We conclude that Durkheim's understanding of anomie seems to exhibit more fidelity than the Parsonian version to the facts concerning torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib as revealed during courts-martial and in government reports. We examine the implications for both social theory and the US Army of conceptualizing abuse at Abu Ghraib in the context of Durkheim's understanding of anomie.