SOC102H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Environmental Degradation, Stein Rokkan, Johan Galtung
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People"s opinions vary as to the causes of war: most popular view is based on evolutionary psychology (and biology) Defines war as a human extension of animal behaviour, related to instinctive territoriality and competition. People fight to protect their territory and to obtain needed resources. Proposed that animals are naturally aggressive, and that this aggression shows up in humans in the form of war (e. g. , people make wars because we evolved from aggressive animals) Increasingly advanced technology heightens the human capacity for destructiveness and self- destruction. Human warfare differs from territorial fights between animals (other than technology) Social factors and childhood socialization are important in the creation and persistence of warfare. Human aggression may be a universal occurrence, but warfare is not (e. g. , wars come and go) Take longer and more complicated than non-human wars. Take years to complete and require enormous organization and conscious sacrifice: sigmund freud.
