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Article: The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp.
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- Commonweal
- Article date:
- May 23, 1997
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Any large-scale organization charged with a purpose it successfully carries out ought to be subject to a sociological analysis, yet no one before Wolfgang Sofsky has ever tried to write the sociology of the concentration camp. It is not hard to understand why. Pick any term from the classical tradition in sociology - whether its origins are attributed to Marx, Weber, or Durkheim - and its irrelevance to the camps is immediately obvious. Classes were not organized according to their position in a means of production. Charisma, honor, status, and prestige were rendered unnecessary by arbitrary power. There was no such thing as an individual conscience, let along a collective ...
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