SOSC 1040 Lecture 17: The Question of Violence
10 Feb 2017
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How we understand violence is important because it will influence how we try to deal with it, and develop attempt to. The question of violence, patriarchy and human nature control it. The taken-for-granted belief in human violent instincts presents a problem for understanding the social and cultural roots of violence. Animals are ruled by their instincts and humans are guided by culture . Freud"s ideas of the death instinct" thanatos, and the life instinct" eros as examples of an alluring yet inadequate explanation of human violence. If we accept that violence is inevitable and normal or naturally programmed in humans then we are less likely to do anything to prevent it. Women and children taken from men who couldn"t pay their debts. Women are replaceable when they fail to satisfy in some way. Macrosocial violence results from the political and economic organization of society. The state, gender domination and militarism emerged simultaneously about 5000 years ago and is called the.
