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Violence : A Micro-sociological Theory /
In the popular misconception fostered by blockbuster action movies and best-selling thrillers--not to mention conventional explanations by social scientists--violence is easy under certain conditions, like poverty, racial or ideological hatreds, or family pathologies. Randall Collins challenges this...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton University Press,
[2009?]
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations and Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. The Micro-sociology of Violent Confrontations; Violent Situations; Micro-evidence: Situational Recordings, Reconstructions, and Observations; Comparing Situations across Types of Violence; Fight Myths; Violent Situations Are Shaped by an Emotional Field of Tension and Fear; Alternative Theoretical Approaches; Historical Evolution of Social Techniques for Controlling Confrontational Tension; Sources; Preview; The Complementarity of Micro and Macro Theories; PART ONE: The Dirty Secrets of Violence. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 2. Confrontational Tension and Incompetent ViolenceBrave, Competent and Evenly Matched?; The Central Reality: Confrontational Tension; Tension/Fear and Non-performance in Military Combat; Low Fighting Competence; Friendly Fire and Bystander Hits; Joy of Combat: Under What Conditions?; The Continuum of Tension/Fear and Combat Performance; Confrontational Tension in Policing and Non-Military Fighting; Fear of What?; 3. Forward Panic; Confrontational Tension and Release: Hot Rush, Piling On, Overkill; Atrocities of War; Caveat: The Multiple Causation of Atrocities. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Asymmetrical Entrainment of Forward Panic and Paralyzed VictimsForward Panics and One-Sided Casualties in Decisive Battles; Atrocities of Peace; Crowd Violence; Demonstrators and Crowd-Control Forces; The Crowd Multiplier; Alternatives to Forward Panic; 4. Attacking the Weak: I. Domestic Abuse; The Emotional Definition of the Situation; Background and Foreground Explanations; Abusing the Exceptionally Weak: Time-patterns from Normalcy to Atrocity; Three Pathways: Normal Limited Conflict, Severe Forward Panic, and Terroristic Torture Regime. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Negotiating Interactional Techniques of Violence and Victimhood5. Attacking the Weak: II. Bullying, Mugging, and Holdups; The Continuum of Total Institutions; Muggings and Holdups; Battening on Interactional Weakness; PART TWO: Cleaned-up and Staged Violence; 6. Staging Fair Fights; Hero versus Hero; Audience Supports and Limits on Violence; Fighting Schools and Fighting Manners; Displaying Risk and Manipulating Danger in Sword and Pistol Duels; The Decline of Elite Dueling and Its Replacement by the Gunfight; Honor without Fairness: Vendettas as Chains of Unbalanced Fights. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Ephemeral Situational Honor and Leap-Frog Escalation to One-Gun FightsBehind the Façade of Honor and Disrespect; The Cultural Prestige of Fair and Unfair Fights; 7. Violence as Fun and Entertainment; Moral Holidays; Looting and Destruction as Participation Sustainers; The Wild Party as Elite Potlatch; Carousing Zones and Boundary Exclusion Violence; End-Resisting Violence; Frustrated Carousing and Stirring up Effervescence; Paradox: Why Does Most Intoxication Not Lead to Violence?; The One-Fight-Per-Venue Limitation; Fighting as Action and Fun; Mock Fights and Mosh Pits; 8. Sports Violence. | |
| 520 | |a In the popular misconception fostered by blockbuster action movies and best-selling thrillers--not to mention conventional explanations by social scientists--violence is easy under certain conditions, like poverty, racial or ideological hatreds, or family pathologies. Randall Collins challenges this view in Violence, arguing that violent confrontation goes against human physiological hardwiring. It is the exception, not the rule--regardless of the underlying conditions or motivations. Collins gives a comprehensive explanation of violence and its dynamics, drawing upon video fo. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 650 | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE |x General. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Violence |x Aspect psychologique. | |
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