Sociology and the Holocaust

<p>For some time the conventional wisdom in the interdisciplinary field of Holocaust studies is that sociologists have neglected this subject matter but this is not really the case. In fact there has been substantial sociological work on the Holocaust although this scholarship has often been ignored or neglected including in the discipline of sociology itself. <i>Sociology and the Holocaust</i> brings this scholarly tradition to light and in doing so offers a comprehensive synthesis of the vast historical and social science literature on the before during and after of the Holocaust—a tour d’horizon from an explicitly sociological perspective. As such the aim of the book is not simply to describe the chronology of events that culminated in the deaths of 6 million Jews but to draw upon sociology’s “theoretical toolkit” to understand these events and the ongoing legacy of the Holocaust sociologically.</p>