POL 3162 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mass Society
15 Apr 2016
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In your essay writing, it is fundamental to define violence in terms of its political sense. It is the use of form in a way to harm others (violence) For violence to be political, it has to be linked to a political object. Four basic components of social actions: values or principles, norms (rules, mobilization (organized actions, situational facilities (obstacles / facilities to attain group goals) Collective behavior (cb) comprise: 1) institutionalised mobilisation whose aim is 2) to reconstitute a component of a social action of 3) a generalized belief. Types of cb: panic, hostile outburst, norm-orientated movement, value oriented movement. Cb produced by general determinants (why cb occur) and an unique combination of detminants (why ) Varied theories on collective violent fall under 3 dichotomies: marxian vs non-marxian, contingent (violence is abnormal) vs inherent (violence belongs to the social process we can"t escape from it, micro vs macro. Participating is a way of supporting the system.
