RT Book
T1 Why humans fight: the social dynamics of close-range violence
A1 Malešević, Siniša 1969-
LA English
PP Cambridge New York Port Melbourne New Delhi Singapore
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1779891970
AB 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.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 332-362, Register
CN HM1116
SN 978-1-009-16279-1
SN 978-1-009-16281-4
K1 Violence : Social aspects
K1 Interpersonal Conflict
K1 Gewalttätigkeit
K1 Konflikt
K1 Verhalten
K1 Sozialverhalten
K1 Ursache
K1 Verhaltenspsychologie
K1 Soziologie
K1 Ideologie
K1 Soziales Feld
K1 Einflussgröße
K1 Geschichte
K1 Gewalt : Ideologie : Gewalttätigkeit : Interpersonaler Konflikt : Sozialverhalten