Sociology 2266A/B Chapter 4: How violence erupts
11 Jan 2016
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Typical experiment, a confederate walks into a room where he finds another student sitting, says that"s an ugly shirt you"re wearing . Generally a young male is more likely to answer and escalate if insulted by another young male, and less likely to insult a woman, least of all an older woman. Barroom literature shows that bars generate more aggression with heavy drinking, especially when the barrooms are large, disorganized, and dominated by males. Also worse when they bring together small groups from different places. All-male groups of strangers are especially volatile. Bar mismanagement and bad design is also an important factor. Fights are violent interactions involving two or more persons in the same conflict. Predatory attacks role, and both parties are rarely fully innocent. The escalation sequence: one party perceives an insult from the other, he responds to the insult and escalates the confrontation, that answer evokes a similar escalation, someone throws the first punch.
