Conflict And The Social Bond

Download or read book Conflict and the Social Bond written by Michalis Lianos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is violent conflict inevitable? What is it in our social nature that makes us conduct wars, genocides and persecutions? The answer lies in how we are programmed to bond and form communities that demand loyalty in order to let us belong. The analysis in this book cuts through the social sciences in order to show the fundamentals of violent conflict. The book investigates conflict at the level of sociality. It reorganises existing theories of conflict under that perspective and brings them to bear upon the link between violence and togetherness. It introduces the key concept of closure to describe the conditions under which human groups start to perceive their position as similar and their reality as polarised. This is how normality starts breaking down and fault lines appear. Violent conflict is then analysed as a reaction that seeks change more rapidly than conditions seem to allow. Global comparative data from numerous studies – including M. Mousseau's works – are used to disentangle the factors that contribute to "democratic peace", that is, the fact that democratic societies do not go to war with each other. This inquiry reveals the new dimension of sociodiversity, which allows societies where individuality is strong to constantly produce alternatives and avoid closure. The book concludes with a coda on peace and sociodiversity which explains how contemporary societies can ensure durable peace and adequate social justice at the same time. Written in a clear and direct style, this volume will appeal to students, researchers and scholars with an interest in political sociology, anthropology, international relations, war studies, as well as conflict and peace studies.

Download or read book Emotions, the Social Bond, and Human Reality written by Thomas J. Scheff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-09-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1997, offers an approach to researching human behavior relating details of interaction to social structure.

Download or read book Civil War and the Collapse of the Social Bond written by Michèle Lowrie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can civil war ever be overcome? Can a better order come into being? This book explores how the Roman civil wars of the first century BCE laid the template for addressing perennially urgent questions. The Roman Republic's collapse and Augustus' new Empire have remained ideological battlegrounds to this day. Integrative and disintegrative readings begun in antiquity (Vergil and Lucan) have left their mark on answers given by Christians (Augustine), secular republicans (Victor Hugo), and disillusioned satirists (Michel Houellebecq) alike. France's self-understanding as a new Rome – republican during the Revolution, imperial under successive Napoleons – makes it a special case in the Roman tradition. The same story returns repeatedly. A golden age of restoration glimmers on the horizon, but comes in the guise of a decadent, oriental empire that reintroduces and exposes everything already wrong under the defunct republic. Central to the price of social order is patriarchy's need to subjugate women.

Download or read book Social Conflict written by Jeffrey Z. Rubin and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1994 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A standard text on social conflict, which covers key research in the field. This edition has been updated and rewritten, with new co-author Sung Hee Kim, and now emphasizes cross-cultural conflict and includes recent research in conflict escalation, stalemate, negotiation and settlement.

Download or read book Functions of Social Conflict written by Lewis A. Coser and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1964-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflict and group boundaries; Hostility and tensions in conflict relationship; In-group conflict and group sctructure; Conflict with out-group and group sctructure; Ideology and conflict; Conflict calls forallies.

Download or read book Conflict: Human Needs Theory written by J. Burton and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1993-09-28 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second part of a set of four volumes seeking to provide an historical and theoretical perspective for consideration of theory and practice in conflict resolution and prevention. The other volumes cover resolution and prevention, and readings and practices in management and resolution.

Download or read book Social Bonds as Freedom written by Paul Dumouchel and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to discussions of multiculturalism and minority rights in modern liberal societies is the idea that the particular demands of minority groups contradict the requirements of equality, anonymity, and universality for citizenship and belonging. The contributors to this volume question the significance of this dichotomy between the universal and the particular, arguing that it reflects how the modern state has instituted the basic rights and obligations of its members and that these institutions are undergoing fundamental transformations under the pressure of globalization. They show that the social bonds uniting groups constitute the means of our freedom, rather than obstacles to achieving the universal.