Violence - socially undesirable phenomenon
Violence, including violence committed by youth, can be by using "thick description" identified as specific human behavior, focused on extortion of carrying out the wishes, interests, acts, commands, & regulations. Violence is in most of the cases associated with power or predominance....
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Veröffentlicht in: | Sociológia 2008-01, Vol.40 (5), p.391-416 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Violence, including violence committed by youth, can be by using "thick description" identified as specific human behavior, focused on extortion of carrying out the wishes, interests, acts, commands, & regulations. Violence is in most of the cases associated with power or predominance. The "thick description" represents very detailed, literally microscopic reckoning of what is violence & it originated from paradigm & theoretical-methodological concept of phenomenology. Aggression & violence, in a similar way as money, became universal fetishes of contemporary societies. They are becoming a generally recognized issue in which probably all people are interested in. There are discouraging theories & according to them the increasing violence & aggression became the symptom of self-destruction of our civilization which draw its universality & legitimacy from its constitutional non-violence. By aggression we often refer to offensive behavior, which usually follows as a reaction to real or apparent threat of one's own (above all) authority, & is very often a demonstration of anger. Sociological meaning of aggression contains also an intention, I.e. intentional abuse. On the present we are witnesses of continuing discussions if aggression is primal meaningful force which enables solutions of aims in life & life's questions or if it is destructive potential in a human being which has to be necessarily shunted by upbringing or training (self training). The determination of violence is very inaccurate although it forms part of our everyday experience. It denotes the most frequent definition of one-shot act or more precisely procedure whereat a human being causes a personal injury to someone else. Other characteristics discuss any acts including neglect which influences life, physical & psychical integrity, individual liberty & it discusses any other acts impairing personal development. The multivalent concept of violence gives evidence the fact that it is also used for definition of a form of intervention in different types of relations (interpersonal, foreign, relations between institutions) & its sphere is modified by legal authorities. The essential categories of violence are pain & threat of suffering. Violence that is causing harm is a source of helplessness of a victim & at the same time it is a demonstration of a perpetrator's dominant power over her or his victim. The whole society as well as social sciences should concentrate their efforts in search for solu |
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ISSN: | 0049-1225 |