SOC 4010 Lecture Notes - Hannah Arendt, Conflict Theories, Eugenics
17 Sep 2013
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To understand violence we need to study and see it from several different aspects and ways ( the theories of violence) Childhood: do some people learn to be violent. Anne campbell: origins lie in the interactions between culture and biology, obedience, how it can be positive for a nation, always looks at violence and the victim. Not just biology or environment, it"s the mixing of both together. We now reject some of the religious approaches like possession, evil person, and the devil made me do it. Classical free will approach: we have kind of stepped away from this, but it is coming back with the rational choice theory. Philosophical theories: looks at the big picture and human nature, hanna arendt, do not start with it, what are we, seen some great thinkers coming out of here and also going back to.
