Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt
Barrington Moore
#2084 of 3,809 books · #113 in Politics & Current Affairs
Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (1978).
This is a book about why people so often put up with being the victims of their societies and why at other times they become very angry and try with passion and forcefulness to do something about their situation. In his most ambitious book to date, Barrington Moore, Jr explores a large part of the world's experience with injustice and its understanding of it. In search of general elements behind the acceptance of injustice he discusses the Untouchables of India, Nazi concentration camps, and the Milgram experiments on obedience to authority.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN-13
- 9781315496528
- Topics
- Social injusticeObedience and authorityPolitical rebellion
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1978)
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