Most social scientists have been overlooking the growth of social scientific concept of genocide. Sociologists argue that holocaust is an illustrative case of the destructive side of modernity. Comparing the two genocides, Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust, will support the theory. Because of modernity, people started recognizing when genocide is committed. Modernity has both, good and bad impacts on humanity. The good side of it is that people started labeling genocide as a new issue, instead of categorizing it as warfare and they demanded justice. Genocide is considered a crime against humanity. The negative side of modernity is the part where new advanced technology made mass killings easier providing with resources, weaponry, technology …show more content…
Armenian Genocide happened in the pre modern world, when the concept of genocide wasn’t familiar yet, therefore nobody acknowledged it. But Holocaust was more modern where the technology was more developed and people had more resources and knowledge. In 1915, leaders of the Turkish government planned to banish and massacre Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire. Nobody recognized it as genocide until later. One of the few people that acknowledge that it was in fact genocide is Yossi Beilin, Minister of Justice of Israel. He says, “It doesn 't have to be this way. I think that our friendly relations with cannot dictate our attitude toward such a dreadful historic event... Something happened that couldn’t be defined except as genocide. One-and-a-half million people disappeared. It wasn 't negligence, it was deliberate (Galili …show more content…
The term genocide was being used more often during the 1940’s not because mass killings were not happening before, but because nobody labeled it as genocide. The modernity did not ruin humanity. Bauman is a significant theorist of postmodernity. On one hand, Bauman believed that the modern society was a more organized culture that sought order and that they needed to control, categorize, and explain the world so it would be governable, liable, and reasonable. It is this ordering and justifying movement that Max Weber thought that was the typical force of modernization. But, on the other hand, modernity was initially considered a radical modification or simply a change, by a endless overthrowing of custom and customary forms of culture, economy, and relationship “all that is solid melts into air,” as Marx characterized this aspect of modern society (Bauman
To start off with, what is genocide? Genocide is the killing of a massive number of people of in a group. Genocide has not only been practices in the present day, but it has been practiced for m...
Thinking about history and Genocides, we want to imagine the enemies as being somehow different from us. Take watching a film, for instance, you’re watching an action film with a villain or killer. We consider them to be different from us we are scared of them, we look at the differently than a “normal” human. We tend to think of the enemies in history to be the same as the villain or killer in a movie. We perceive this because we don’t want to assume that any normal human being is capable of committing a Genocide. As a society, we believe we are different from the chaos in the world. Christopher Browning’s book, Ordinary Men: Reserved Police Battalion 101 and the final solution in Poland, portrayed the story from the opposite viewpoint. Everyday
Now the similarities for how the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust are the same. Well we know one obvious reason is that they both called out a group of people which resulted in the no need killing of innocent people. In a way it is similar because at one point the Turks and the Nazis both used things that they could blame it on people or on tragedies that happened in their country which can always spark a revolt or some sort of revolution. Another thing that ma...
Did you know that around six million Jews were killed during the holocaust? What is genocide? The exact definition of genocide is, “the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation” (dictionary.com). The Indian Removal Act and the Jewish holocaust were two events in history that are considered genocide.These events were alike and different in many ways. Both these events were tragedies, but from them we learn how awful it was that these people were killed because of their race and religion and how to prevent it. Both of these events were considered genocide because people were killed because of their religion or race.
Spangenburg, Ray, and Diane Moser. The Crime of Genocide: Terror against Humanity. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2000. Print.
When a group feels as if their existence is threatened by another group, the only solution to their problem is the extermination of the opposing group. Genocide is also used to carry out systematic efforts in destroying enemies which will send out warning to other potential enemies. Acquiring economic wealth by destroying a group which stands in the way of that benefit is also another reason genocide is carried out. Finally, to create a “pure race” which means everyone practices the same way, follows the same culture, and the group who does not fit the guidelines, will be exterminated. The Center on Law and Globalization is a charitable organization which presents news about devastating problems in countries across the world. Its authors are reporters and journalist who experience firsthand the problems these countries are facing. In the article, Why Do Genocides Occur? Published by the Center on Law and Globalization, the conditions under which genocide usually occurs includes: when the victims are excluded, which means they have lost their citizenship and denied their rights, in crisis, when their government is in ruins, or in a dictatorial
It should be, because of the UN’s definition of genocide, the stages of genocide, and the evidence from the memoir Night. The Nazis were cruel to anyone who didn't look like them, so they thought killing them off would be better for the world. That is genocide. The way that they treated the Jews was like they were less than human and as if they were objects to be beaten and thrown around. Anyone who believes that the holocaust was not a form of genocide are mislead and to prevent it from happening again, people should do research. The holocaust in fact was one of the largest cases of genocide but this is the one were nearly 11 million people, not just Jews, were brutally
...he human depravity one can imagine. Even though Genocide did not begin with the Holocaust, Germany and Adolf Hitlers’ heartless desire for “Aryanization” came at the high cost of human violence, suffering and humiliation towards the Jewish race. These warning signs during the Holocaust, such as Anti-Semitism, Hitler Youth, Racial profiling, the Ghettos, Lodz, Crystal Night, Pogroms, and Deportation unraveled too late for the world to figure out what was going on and help prevent the horrors that came to pass. The lessons learned from all of this provide a better understanding of all the scars genocide leaves behind past and present. In spite the ongoing research in all of these areas today, we continue to learn new details and accounts. By exploring the various warning signs that pointed toward genocide, valuable knowledge was gained on how not to let it happen again.
The word genocide brings up images of the second world war and the Holocaust. While the actions taken against the Jews and minority groups deserve remembrance, this is not the first genocide the world has experienced. During the first world war, Armenians found themselves in a similar position of the future Jews in Nazi Germany. What is left of the Ottoman Empire begins to align with a Turkish nationalism that leads to creating a country for Turks. This brings out the changes that ultimately lead to the Armenian genocide. While this topic has been an area of conflict, the Armenian genocide is a major turning point for the Turkish people. While the name suggests only Armenians were affected, groups like the Assyrians and Greeks were also targeted for their Christian beliefs.
By definition, genocide is the mass extermination of a whole group of people, or an attempt to destroy an entire group of people, either in whole or in part. Whether it’s based on race, ethnicity, culture, or religion, the systematic destruction of a certain group of people constitutes as genocide. Forced transfer of the children of a group to another in an attempt to destroy a certain group also counts as genocide. Genocide covers a broad spectrum of points, and it’s surprising that so many of these points actually occur in our civilized society, but it does occur.
The Armenian genocide was the first genocide of Modern World History, but it was not the first time the world saw an ethnic and religious group angry with and persecuting another. The Armenian genocide is special because it was the first time the world saw mass slaughter being planned and executed by government officials. This deliberate slaughter of Armenians has been the focus of many because of its unique persecution of a single ethnic group and the fact that the Turkish government still denies its existence. Although the Armenian genocide took place in the Middle East, it has impacted the entire world. The Armenian genocide happened during World War I. Most known genocides have happened during times of war, because most of the world or the population of the country is so focused on the war, so they do not notice the mass killings going on in their country or in other countries.
Throughout history mass murder has not been a problem to the same level and in the same sense as it is today. A related occurrence that is seen in history, which can be studied for its similar preparation and organization, is genocide. Genocide, an international crime, is a large-scale form of mass murder, in which many people are killed in a string of independent events because of prejudices or war (Reisman, 2008). Killing a large group of people takes a high level of organization. The logistics of how to do it, where to do it, where to dispose of the bodies, among other things must be examined before killing begins (Reisman, 2008). The only similarity to the 21st century version of mass murder is the predatory violence involving extensive planning and little to no emotion involved in the killing (Meloy et al., 2004). However aside from that it is difficult to compare the two events because genocide has many killers and can take place over extended periods of time. For example, during the Holocaust Nazi Germany systematically exterminated millions of Jew over a period of three years (Reisman, 2008). This trend is relevant due to the death of more than three p...
What is genocide? “Genocide is a deliberate, systematic destruction of racial cultural or political groups.”(Feldman 29) What is the Holocaust? “Holocaust, the period between 1933-1945 when Nazi Germany systematically persecuted and murdered millions of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and many other people.”(Feldman 29) These two things tie into each other.The Holocaust was a genocide. Many innocent people were torn apart from their families, for many never to see them again. This murder of the “Jewish people of Europe began in spring 1941.”( Feldman 213) The Holocaust was one of the most harshest things done to mankind.
When people hear genocide they normally think of the Holocaust which was the persecution of Jews by the Nazi’s. This took place under Adolf Hitler’s rule but there have been other genocides throughout history. The Armenian Genocide is one of the many that have taken place. It took place in the Ottoman Empire between the years of 1914 to 1918 (“Armenian” Armenian). It started when the “Young Turks” took control of the government (Beecroft). The Holocaust and Armenian genocide are similar in the reasons that started them, but they are different in who was involved and how the two genocides were executed.
Among these modern principles are instrumental rationality, rule following, the ordering and categorization of all of social life, and a complex division of labor. When analyzed, all of these principles played a role in the mass extermination of the Jewish people. For Bauman, postmodernity is the result of modernity’s failure to rationalize the world and the amplification of its capacity for constant change. Bauman describes that there are two ways to minimize the significance of the holocaust as the theory of civilization, modernity, and of modern civilization 1) to present the holocaust as something that happened to the Jews as an event in Jewish history, and 2) to present the holocaust as an extreme case of a wide and familiar category of social phenomena. These perspectives make the Holocaust part of an individual history, not relevant or representative of the morality of modern