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This 3 page paper discusses the psychological concept of racial stratification as shown in the film Schindler’s List. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Sociological Concepts in Schindlers List Research Compiled for The Paper
Store, Inc. by K. Von Huben 6/2010 Please Introduction Schindlers List is a brilliant film but its difficult to watch. Director
Steven Spielberg hasnt spared the audience in showing what it was like to be a Jew under the Nazi domination of Europe. He is particularly adept at putting a human
face on evil thereby illustrating how banal it is, and how any one could turn into a monster. This paper considers some of the sociological concepts illustrated in the film,
particularly those to do with racial and ethnic stratification and majority/minority relations. Discussion The Nazi extermination of European Jewry should not have come as a surprise to anyone. Hitler spewed
his hatred of the Jews on every page of his book Mein Kampf. When he gained the technology to make his twisted ideology a reality, he unleashed the Holocaust. Hitlers
thinking is based on a doctrine of racial superiority: he believed that the "Aryan" race, of which the Germans are the exemplars, is superior to every other race on earth.
Once this thinking takes hold, it is possible to justify anything, no matter how disgusting, because it is the act of a superior being who cannot be held to the
standards of the rest of society. This thinking permeates the entire film; it is in fact the driving force behind it. What is interesting is that Spielberg does not
simply concentrate on the evil as embodied in the Germans, some of whom seem as confused and unhappy as the Jews, but he explores evil throughout all levels of society.
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