PSYC 3030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Anger Management, Jackson Katz, Masculinity
1 Feb 2015
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Violence around the world: un, 2002, frequency of violence. Types of violence: types of violence differ across culture. Usa gun related violence and it tends to involve individuals rather than group. Middle east, africa, eastern europe, and parts of south america, groups attacks in political, ethnic, tribal conflict form. Europe violence mobs during football : phenomenon referred to as football hooliganism . Nonviolent societies: balinese (indonesian island of bali) Inuit (artic regions: tibetan buddhist society in northern india, zapotec (native american society in southern mexico) Men are violent fighters, compete with one another physical contests, and are protection of women (nisbett, 1990) Social psych cross-culture context of violence & altruism: tahitians. Man are peaceful and cooperative and do not overprotect their women (nisbett, Subjective cultures: simbu of new guinea (brown, 1986) High status is associated with being male, violent, competitive and loyal to men"s group. There is a shortage of land: semai in malaysia (robarcheck, 1986)
