SOCI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Conflict Theories
30 Nov 2016
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Individual characteristics (e. g. , poverty, low self-control) are imprecise predictors of violence: 1. Only some poor people are violent: 2. When they are, they are only rarely violent: 3. Social-level characteristics (e. g. , culture of honor) are imprecise predictors of violence: 1. Only some people in the culture of honor are violent: 2. Structures: ps: structures are violent, not people or groups, violent structures = certain combinations of social locations, directions, and distances, black: case structure explains the form violence takes (e. g. , feuding between groups) Weapons: case structure also predicts the weapons people use, weapon lethality increases with social distance (i. e. , relational and cultural distance) This can be seen across many societies at many times. Says nothing about biology or psychology: 2. It therefore operates at a purely social level: 3. And, in principle, it operates in all societies, at all times. The (cid:1007) p"s: ps, then, is distinctive in explaining behavior without invoking, 1. People social life (e. g. , weapons, sanctions) acts.
