Violence : a new approach /
Wieviorka, Michel,
Violence : a new approach / Michel Wieviorka ; translated by David Macey. - vi, 183 pages ; 24 cm
Translation of: La violence.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-180) and index.
Towards a New Paradigm -- Introduction -- Violence and the State -- The Emergence of Victims -- Violence and the Media -- Conclusion: the Limitations of Classical Sociology -- The Mark of the Subject -- Introduction -- Violence, Loss of Meaning and Excess Meaning -- The Non-Meaning Hypothesis -- Cruelty -- The Mark of the Subject -- Conclusion. Part I. 2. 3. 4. Part II. 5. 6. 7. 8.
"Violence is an ever-present phenomenon - obstinately resistant to interpretation. This text offers new tools to understand and analyze violence, presenting a new approach based on the subjectivity of the actor, and on the relation between violence and meaning. The first section discusses violence and conflict, violence and the state, and violence and the media. This provides critical context for developing a new paradigm - in the second section - that gives more importance to the concept of the subject than more classical paradigms. The text distinguishes different possible relations between the meaning of action and violence and proposes a new typology of the subjects involved in violence. It gives particular emphasis to discussing cruelty, violence for violence sake, and "pure" violence. The relationship between conflict and violence; the place of victims, and the role of the media all shape new forms of violence. This text is an engaged response to these new forms that presents a convincing interpretation and new tools that will be essential for researchers in the social sciences."--Publisher's website.
1847875467 9781847875464 1847875459 9781847875457
2008938815
Violence.
HM886 / .W5413 2009
303.6
Violence : a new approach / Michel Wieviorka ; translated by David Macey. - vi, 183 pages ; 24 cm
Translation of: La violence.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-180) and index.
Towards a New Paradigm -- Introduction -- Violence and the State -- The Emergence of Victims -- Violence and the Media -- Conclusion: the Limitations of Classical Sociology -- The Mark of the Subject -- Introduction -- Violence, Loss of Meaning and Excess Meaning -- The Non-Meaning Hypothesis -- Cruelty -- The Mark of the Subject -- Conclusion. Part I. 2. 3. 4. Part II. 5. 6. 7. 8.
"Violence is an ever-present phenomenon - obstinately resistant to interpretation. This text offers new tools to understand and analyze violence, presenting a new approach based on the subjectivity of the actor, and on the relation between violence and meaning. The first section discusses violence and conflict, violence and the state, and violence and the media. This provides critical context for developing a new paradigm - in the second section - that gives more importance to the concept of the subject than more classical paradigms. The text distinguishes different possible relations between the meaning of action and violence and proposes a new typology of the subjects involved in violence. It gives particular emphasis to discussing cruelty, violence for violence sake, and "pure" violence. The relationship between conflict and violence; the place of victims, and the role of the media all shape new forms of violence. This text is an engaged response to these new forms that presents a convincing interpretation and new tools that will be essential for researchers in the social sciences."--Publisher's website.
1847875467 9781847875464 1847875459 9781847875457
2008938815
Violence.
HM886 / .W5413 2009
303.6