Violence and society
Subtitle: toward a new sociology
By: edited by Jane Kilby and Larry Ray
Contributors: Ray, Larry J.
Series: Sociological review monographs
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, The Sociological Review
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Malden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781118942017
Subjects: Violence; Social aspects; Psychological aspects; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Description: "Violence and Society features a multidisciplinary collection of readings by leading national and international experts that set a new agenda for our understanding of interpersonal and state violence in contemporary society.  Features contributions from leading international experts in collective, state, and interpersonal violence  Develops innovative interdisciplinary theorizations based on new empirical studies on violence and society  Incorporates within an emerging analytical framework issues of war, domestic and gender-based violence, fighting, honor and shame, violence and identity, and politics and violence  Allows us to better understand the world we live in  "--

"What is violence and how can we understand it sociologically? And is society becoming increasingly inured to acts of violent behaviour? Pushing beyond widely accepted sociological theories of the complexity of violence, Violence and Society: Toward a New Sociology gathers leading national and international experts to set a new agenda for our understanding of interpersonal and state violence in contemporary society. Through an in-depth analysis of issues that include the nature of contemporary war; gender-based violence and street fights; and of the role of biography, the body, culture, emotion, and time in the exercise and experience of violence, chapters reveal how modern sociological thinking is at odds with a proper understanding of the nature and root causes of violence. Timely and important, Violence and Society: Toward a New Sociology sheds important new light on our understanding of the world we live in"--