SOCI 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: World Health Organization, Umbrella Term, Structural Violence
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Common elements of families (mcdaniel and tepperman, 2004) All close relaions usually involve some relaional type of atachment, emoional bonding, dependency or interdependence. Most families exhibit some degree of power imbalance. Families tend to guard their members against internal and external danger. 25% of all violent crimes reported involve family violence(2003: rape, assault and murder by family member much more common than by stranger. These incidents have only been recently discussed: ignored by social science into the 1970s, norms of family privacy and assumpions of rarity. Increasing research atenion and public awareness: more and more research to understand the whole idea" of violence within the family. Example of media(mis)representaion man killed his wife and 5 children. Markeing with white female vulnerability to male aggression. Lack of consensus around deiniions: deiniions can inluence the collecion of data and subsequent policies(dekeseredy, World health organizaion deiniion of violence(p. 341: self-directed, interpersonal(includes family violence, collecive(outside home)
