Violence : a micro-sociological theory / Randall Collins.
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...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations and Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. The Micro-sociology of Violent Confrontations; Violent Situations; Micro-evidence: Situational Recordings, Reconstructions, and Observations; Comparing Situations across Types of Violence; Fight Myths; Violent Situations Are Shaped by an Emotional Field of Tension and Fear; Alternative Theoretical Approaches; Historical Evolution of Social Techniques for Controlling Confrontational Tension; Sources; Preview; The Complementarity of Micro and Macro Theories; PART ONE: The Dirty Secrets of Violence.
- 2. Confrontational Tension and Incompetent ViolenceBrave, Competent and Evenly Matched?; The Central Reality: Confrontational Tension; Tension/Fear and Non-performance in Military Combat; Low Fighting Competence; Friendly Fire and Bystander Hits; Joy of Combat: Under What Conditions?; The Continuum of Tension/Fear and Combat Performance; Confrontational Tension in Policing and Non-Military Fighting; Fear of What?; 3. Forward Panic; Confrontational Tension and Release: Hot Rush, Piling On, Overkill; Atrocities of War; Caveat: The Multiple Causation of Atrocities.
- Asymmetrical Entrainment of Forward Panic and Paralyzed VictimsForward Panics and One-Sided Casualties in Decisive Battles; Atrocities of Peace; Crowd Violence; Demonstrators and Crowd-Control Forces; The Crowd Multiplier; Alternatives to Forward Panic; 4. Attacking the Weak: I. Domestic Abuse; The Emotional Definition of the Situation; Background and Foreground Explanations; Abusing the Exceptionally Weak: Time-patterns from Normalcy to Atrocity; Three Pathways: Normal Limited Conflict, Severe Forward Panic, and Terroristic Torture Regime.
- Negotiating Interactional Techniques of Violence and Victimhood5. Attacking the Weak: II. Bullying, Mugging, and Holdups; The Continuum of Total Institutions; Muggings and Holdups; Battening on Interactional Weakness; PART TWO: Cleaned-up and Staged Violence; 6. Staging Fair Fights; Hero versus Hero; Audience Supports and Limits on Violence; Fighting Schools and Fighting Manners; Displaying Risk and Manipulating Danger in Sword and Pistol Duels; The Decline of Elite Dueling and Its Replacement by the Gunfight; Honor without Fairness: Vendettas as Chains of Unbalanced Fights.
- Ephemeral Situational Honor and Leap-Frog Escalation to One-Gun FightsBehind the Façade of Honor and Disrespect; The Cultural Prestige of Fair and Unfair Fights; 7. Violence as Fun and Entertainment; Moral Holidays; Looting and Destruction as Participation Sustainers; The Wild Party as Elite Potlatch; Carousing Zones and Boundary Exclusion Violence; End-Resisting Violence; Frustrated Carousing and Stirring up Effervescence; Paradox: Why Does Most Intoxication Not Lead to Violence?; The One-Fight-Per-Venue Limitation; Fighting as Action and Fun; Mock Fights and Mosh Pits; 8. Sports Violence.