Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt

Moore, Barrington

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039473727X ISBN 13: 9780394737270

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1979

An examination of the constants and variables of the sense of injustice displayed by ordinary people in various societies places special focus on the German working class between 1848 and 1920

About the Author:

BARRINGTON MOORE, JR is a Lecturer in Sociology at Harvard University and Senior Research Fellow for the University's Russian Centre. He was educated at Williams College, where he took a degree in Greek and Latin, and at Yale University where he gained a PhD in sociology. His book Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy received the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award in political science and the MacIver Award in sociology. He is also the author of Soviet Politics: The Dilemma of Power, Terror and Progress: USSR, Political Power and Social Theory and, with Robert P. Wolff and Herbert Marcuse, A Critique of Pure Tolerance. His most recent book, Reflections on the Causes of Human Misery and upon Certain Proposals to Eliminate Them, was given the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of Phi Beta Kappa.