Why humans fight: the social dynamics of close-range violence

Malešević offers a novel sociological answer to the age-old question: 'Why do humans fight?'. Instead of focusing on the motivations of solitary individuals, he emphasises the centrality of the social and historical contexts that make fighting possible. He argues that fighting is not an in...

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Main Author: Malešević, Siniša 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge New York Port Melbourne New Delhi Singapore Cambridge University Press [2022]
In:Year: 2022
Online Access: Inhaltsbeschreibung & Leseprobe
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Keywords:
Violence > Social aspects
Interpersonal Conflict
Gewalttätigkeit
Konflikt
Verhalten
Sozialverhalten
Ursache
Verhaltenspsychologie
Soziologie
Ideologie
Soziales Feld
Einflussgröße
Geschichte
Gewalt > Ideologie > Gewalttätigkeit > Interpersonaler Konflikt > Sozialverhalten
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Summary:Malešević offers a novel sociological answer to the age-old question: 'Why do humans fight?'. Instead of focusing on the motivations of solitary individuals, he emphasises the centrality of the social and historical contexts that make fighting possible. He argues that fighting is not an individual attribute, but a social phenomenon shaped by one's relationships with other people. Drawing on recent scholarship across a variety of academic disciplines as well as his own interviews with the former combatants, Malešević shows that one's willingness to fight is a contextual phenomenon shaped by specific ideological and organisational logic. This book explores the role biology, psychology, economics, ideology, and coercion play in one's experience of fighting, emphasising the cultural and historical variability of combativeness. By drawing from numerous historical and contemporary examples from all over the world, Malešević demonstrates how social pugnacity is a relational and contextual phenomenon that possesses autonomous features.
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 332-362, Register
Physical Description:ix, 368 Seiten
ISBN:9781009162791
9781009162814
DOI:10.1017/9781009162807