Zygmunt Baumans’ article provides the reader a look at the\u00a0sociological aspect of modernity and the holocaust. \u00a0In his article, Bauman mixes “modernity” and ‘sociological behavior” together while using the Holocaust to look at human behavior. \u00a0Bauman argues that the Holocaust is another chapter in modern society. \u00a0Like many events that preceded the Holocaust, violence, in Bauman’s mind, was\u00a0a “constitutive feature of Modern Civilization” and that the “Holocaust-style phenomena must be recognized as legitimate outcome of civilizing tendency.” \u00a0(Bauman Pg 28) He thinks that because of how\u00a0humans interact with one another, how each individual thinks differently, and how each individual solves problems differently, humanity will always be\u00a0doomed to use violence from time to time to solve its problems. \u00a0For example, he believed that the Holocaust had a feeling\u00a0of familiarity from its past. \u00a0He uses the\u00a0“slaughter of Albigensian heretics” and “the British invention of concentration camps during the Boer War” as examples of how the Holocaust\u00a0took a familiar path from other events in history.<\/p>\n
Bauman\u00a0provides his audience with a valid\u00a0argument in that the Holocaust became another example of how human behavior tends to lead toward violence from time to time. As society has and will continue to advance, humans will continue to fight\u00a0over various issues. \u00a0Over the course of time, Humanity has seen violence over\u00a0\u00a0Religion,\u00a0imperialism, politics, and present day terrorism. \u00a0In the 20th and 21st centuries, humans continue to fight over natural resources and politics. \u00a0These conflicts over natural resources and politics have led to two global conflicts and many more small scaled wars. \u00a0 Whatever the reason may be, the fact that violence continues today makes a strong case for Baumans argument that humans will continue to fight and the Holocaust was\u00a0another chapter in modern societies.<\/p>\n
Bauman used the term “Modernity” to describe the social beliefs humans have and will have\u00a0toward the world. \u00a0He used it in a way that\u00a0helped him explain how the\u00a0legacy of the Holocaust became another example\u00a0of human tendencies toward violence, like \u00a0predeceasing conflicts before it.<\/p>\n
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Zygmunt Baumans’ article provides the reader a look at the\u00a0sociological aspect of modernity and the holocaust. \u00a0In his article, Bauman mixes “modernity” and ‘sociological behavior” together while using the Holocaust to look at human behavior. \u00a0Bauman argues that the Holocaust … Continue reading