Violence

出版者:Princeton University Press

作者:Randall Collins

页数:584

出版时间:2008-1-7

价格:USD 70.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780691133133

具体描述

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.

作者简介

1.作者介绍

兰德尔·柯林斯（Randall Collins，1941— ），美国当代著名社会学家，冲突论的代表人物，宾夕法尼亚大学Dorothy Swaine Thomas社会学教授，主要研究领域为理论社会学、关于政治与经济变迁的宏观社会学、社会冲突等。

2.代表作品

《互动仪式链》（2004），被列入商务世界学术名著译丛。

读后感

看清暴力的真面目 ——读《暴力》 彭忠富 一些男人醉酒后往往兽性大发，以殴打妻子为乐事，而酒醒后则会在良心的谴责下道歉。这种家暴往往是一个长期行为，严重影响了女性的身心健康，也给孩子的成长带来了阴影。暴力泛指侵害他人人身、财产的强暴行为，除了家庭暴力，还包...  

看清暴力的真面目 ——读《暴力》 彭忠富 一些男人醉酒后往往兽性大发，以殴打妻子为乐事，而酒醒后则会在良心的谴责下道歉。这种家暴往往是一个长期行为，严重影响了女性的身心健康，也给孩子的成长带来了阴影。暴力泛指侵害他人人身、财产的强暴行为，除了家庭暴力，还包...  

“没有暴力的个体，只有暴力的情景” 近日，恐怖袭击在欧洲接二连三发生，恐怖主义带来的阴霾持续扩散。文化版这期为读者推介当代著名社会学家兰德尔·柯林斯的著作《暴力：一种微观社会学理论》，其中许多观点有助于我们理解暴力的深层次原因。比如，以及暴力本身仰赖于组织性...

三年前，当我第一次坐在兰道尔·柯林斯的当代社会理论课堂上，曾经难抑激动的心情：柯林斯是当代最伟大的社会理论学家之一，对于宏观与微观社会学都有深入的研究与建树。他所提出的互动仪式链理论结合了涂尔干的仪式理论、韦伯的冲突理论以及戈夫曼的微观研究方法之精髓，被视...  

书很好，翻译也还不错，稍作记录。 p6，ethnomethodology一般翻译为常人方法学或俗民方法论，民族志方法学这个翻译似乎容易跟民族志方法（ethnography）混淆。 p10，“所有类型的暴力都符合寥寥几种模式，那就是当人们面对敌对暴力时，如何控制紧张和恐惧的边界。”这句话不...