James F. Jr. Short, Marvin E. Wolfgang

Collective Violence (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Collective violence has played an important role throughout American history, though we have typically denied it. But it is not enough to repress violence or to suppress our knowledge of it. We must understand the phenomenon, and to do this, we must learn what violent groups are trying to say. Th at some choose violence tells us something about the perpetrators, inevitably, about ourselves and the society we have built.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351527743
• Artikelnr.: 48868050

Autorenporträt

James F. Short, Marvin E. Wolfgang

Inhaltsangabe

I: Introduction and Overview
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II: Theoretical Issues
2: Interpreting Collective Violence
3: Issueless Riots
4: A Critical Note on Conceptions of Collective Behavior
5: Two Critics in Search of a Bias
6: Agonistics-Rituals of Conflict
7: The Legitimation of Violence
8: The Controversy Surrounding Analyses of Collective Violence
III: Comparative Perspectives
9: Patterns in International Warfare, 1816-1965
10: Sources of Rebellion in Western Societies
11: Conflict Without Violence and Violence Without Conflict in a Mexican Mestizo Village
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13: Violence in the New Guinea Highlands
14: Violence in Burmese History
15: The Place of Aggression in Social Interaction
IV: Dimensions of Collective Violence in the United States
16: The Paradox of American Violence
17: The Psychology of Political Activity
18: Rebellion and Repression and the Vietnam War
19: Cultural Value Orientations and Student Protest
20: Campus Protests and the Vietnam War
21: Campus Conflict as Formative Influence
22: Local Political Leadership and Popular Discontent in the Ghetto
23: The Emergence of Muted Violence in Crowd Behavior
24: Police Violence and Its Public Support
25: The Police and Collective Violence in Contemporary America
V: In Search of Alternatives
26: The Nonviolent Alternative
27: The Usefulness of Commission Studies of Collective Violence