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Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory ハードカバー – 2008/1/7

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In the popular misconception fostered by blockbuster action movies and best-selling thrillers--not to mention conventional explanations by social scientists--violence is easy under certain conditions, like poverty, racial or ideological hatreds, or family pathologies. Randall Collins challenges this view in Violence, arguing that violent confrontation goes against human physiological hardwiring. It is the exception, not the rule--regardless of the underlying conditions or motivations.


Collins gives a comprehensive explanation of violence and its dynamics, drawing upon video footage, cutting-edge forensics, and ethnography to examine violent situations up close as they actually happen--and his conclusions will surprise you. Violence comes neither easily nor automatically. Antagonists are by nature tense and fearful, and their confrontational anxieties put up a powerful emotional barrier against violence. Collins guides readers into the very real and disturbing worlds of human discord--from domestic abuse and schoolyard bullying to muggings, violent sports, and armed conflicts. He reveals how the fog of war pervades all violent encounters, limiting people mostly to bluster and bluff, and making violence, when it does occur, largely incompetent, often injuring someone other than its intended target. Collins shows how violence can be triggered only when pathways around this emotional barrier are presented. He explains why violence typically comes in the form of atrocities against the weak, ritualized exhibitions before audiences, or clandestine acts of terrorism and murder--and why a small number of individuals are competent at violence.



Violence overturns standard views about the root causes of violence and offers solutions for confronting it in the future.

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Collins's Violence is a sourcebook for the oft-ignored and usually unseen obvious: We humans are bad at violence, even if civilization makes us a bit better at it. -- David D. Laitin, Science Violence is a rare academic work, with both a convincing reappraisal of its scholarly terrain, and enough accessibility and useful advice to attract laymen. The writing is clear and direct--sometimes with a welcome touch of the colloquial--and well illustrated with photographs and charts. -- Graeme Wood, New York Sun Offering a wealth of observations...Randall Collins's overall theory is neat: violence is not easy, hence relatively rare. It is a compelling argument. -- Jane Kilby, Times Higher Education Insofar as his analysis has sought to highlight its micro-situational aspects, he must be applauded. In the future, only interdisciplinary research will be able to approach this topic with the same vigor, and coherence as Collins has provided us in this book. -- Paul Armstrong, Canadian Journal of Sociology The book is a superb commentary on how the emotional energy created by the situation of forward panic produces violence... Collin's exhaustive treatment of the forward panic is a major contribution to the literature and the term is certain to become a standard part of our vocabulary on violence. -- John M. Hagedorn, Anthropos Professor Collins has initiated a much needed discussion of violence, unencumbered by myth and make-believe... After reading this excellent and highly readable volume, there are few myths left remain standing! -- P. A. J. Waddington, Policing [T]he book is a notable attempt to develop a general sociological theory of interpersonal violence, and anyone interested in violence and peace can learn a great deal from it. -- Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Journal of Peace Research [A] deeply learned, thoughtful, and erudite book... [T]he complexity of thought and the clarity of exposition of this first volume leave the reader both fulfilled and eager. Like the greatest of classical sociological thinkers, Collins is both pointillist and abstract expressionist, synthesizing micro and macro, and always asserting the power of the social. -- Michael Kimmel, American Journal of Sociology

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Randall Collins is the Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor of Sociology and a member of the Department of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include "Interaction Ritual Chains" (Princeton) and "The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change".

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  • 出版社 ‏ : ‎ Princeton Univ Pr (2008/1/7)
  • 発売日 ‏ : ‎ 2008/1/7
  • 言語 ‏ : ‎ 英語
  • ハードカバー ‏ : ‎ 563ページ
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0691133131
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0691133133
  • 寸法 ‏ : ‎ 16.51 x 3.81 x 24.13 cm
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Rodrigo Bonfim
5つ星のうち5.0 Violência e o interacionismo
2021年5月22日にブラジルでレビュー済み
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A abordagem micro interacionista traz novas, e importantes, perspectivas de se perceber a violência em seu aspecto micro sociológico, longe dos conceitos cansados sobre esse fato social tão conhecido e experimentado por qualquer membro da sociedade.
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Rodrigo Bonfim
5つ星のうち5.0 Violência e o interacionismo
2021年5月22日にブラジルでレビュー済み
A abordagem micro interacionista traz novas, e importantes, perspectivas de se perceber a violência em seu aspecto micro sociológico, longe dos conceitos cansados sobre esse fato social tão conhecido e experimentado por qualquer membro da sociedade.
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RobinL
5つ星のうち5.0 There are a lot of reasons I love this, not the least of which because Collins ...
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There are a lot of reasons I love this, not the least of which because Collins takes the time to explain his examples, both clearly and exhaustively. Although exhaustive can often mean boring, the very nature of the topic - violence - means that for our rubbernecking tendencies as people, the examples don't really get tedious. Critique often circles around Collins' attempts to make a macro theory of this micro interaction, but I believe he makes his argument persuasively. Even if you don't agree with some of the finer points of his argument, he meticulously treats the topic of Violence in such a way that the theory doesn't get toppled with minor disagreements. I think this work will be canonized in the subfield.
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Sierra Erdinger
5つ星のうち5.0 An exceptional book - will dominate this field of research for some time
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This is an astonishingly good book - Randall Collins has provided by far the most extensive, systematic and methodologically original investigation of violence currently available, and in a form comprehensible both to the general public and to specialist academics. Deploying extensive quantitative data on violence, carefully analysed case studies, photographic and video analysis of riots and abuses, and interviews with an extraordinary range of informants - including a professional hit-man - this work is a huge advance in the effort to understand violence, and will dominate research on this topic for some time. Collins demonstrates convincingly that, contrary to platitudinous assertions regarding man's 'innate aggression', acts of violence are hard, and the vast majority of people - including trained soldiers - are reluctant to engage in them and incredibly inept when they do so. What makes violence possible, Collins demonstrates, is the generation of certain emotional states rooted in both individual and collective behaviour. He analyses the way such processes work in riots and civilian violence, warfare, sporting violence, and terroristic or criminal violence, with extraordinary intellectual sophistication and explanatory force. The results are radical, provocative and important, with implications for the full gamut of disciplines, theorists and practitioners who deal with violence.

This is, in short, one of the most impressive academic books I have read - it demands examination from anyone interested in this topic.
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Noumenon
5つ星のうち5.0 Making sense of so much
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I'd been waiting for a "sequel" to Dave Grossman's On Killing to see if it held up, and this is it. Collins makes sense of why soldiers so infrequently fired their weapons in World War II by showing that violence is difficult in any situation where the opponents are evenly matched. It takes a safe environment like a limited schoolyard fight or a massive mismatch like a driveby shooting for violence to be easy.

You also come away with a different view of human nature after reading the book. You begin to think that what separates humans from animals might not be language or tools after all, but our capacity for emotional mirroring. Collins' book makes the world look kindler and gentler even when he's discussing the ugliest violence, because he shows how unnatural it is for us and how the situation has to be just right for it to occur.

After being raised in American culture with its love for violence from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to SWAT teams, it's really interesting to find out that it's all based on macho and bluster. Reading this book is like someone raised in Sparta going to modern-day Sweden and finding out the world isn't innately violent after all.
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Victor MacGill
5つ星のうち5.0 What violence is really like
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I am still only about half way through. The book is full of insights about violence that I always knew but somehow couldn't articulate or put together in a structured way. I work in the area of domestic violence, so I was able to talk with violent men about the difference between Hollywood violence and how violence really happens and they confirmed what is in the book. I am looking forward to the insights of the other half of the book.
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