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Understanding Violence provides an interdisciplinary sampling of readings geared toward deconstructing violence using a scholarly approach. Drawing from key contributors across such fields as psychology, criminology, sociology, anthropology, biology, and political science, this text provides a core curriculum in the subject as a whole what every student should know, regardless of specialization. However, the readings are concise enough that professors could use the book as a supplement to additional material in their preferred discipline.

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• All chapters conclude with Suggestions for Further Reading and Study Questions
• Introduction: Understanding Violence?
• 1 Biology
• On War and Peace in Animals and Man
• Wilson, On Human Nature
• Making Sense of Sex
• An Overview of Biological Influences on Violent Behavior
• 2 Psychology}}cErich Fromm
• The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
• Frustration and Aggression
• Aggression: A Social Learning Analysis
• On the Formation and Regulation of Anger and Aggression
• Does Television Violence Cause Aggression?
• Obedience to Authority
• 3 Sociology
• Some Social Functions of Violence
• Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation: The Robbers Cave Experiment
• Behind Closed Doors: Violence in the American Family
• Violence and the Social Control of Women
• War and Religion in a Sociological Perspective
• Violence, Peace, and Peace Research
• 4 Anthropology
• Intergroup Hostility and Social Cohesion
• Life Histories, Blood Revenge, and Warfare in a Tribal Population
• Yanomami Warfare
• Anthropological Perspectives on Aggression: Sex Differences and Cultural Variation
• Cycles of Violence: The Anthropology of War and Peace
• 5 Political Science. Thucydides, The Melian Dialogue
• The Evolution of Cooperation
• The Strategy of Conflict
• War and Misperception
• Why Men Fight
• The Wretched of the Earth
• Man, the State and War
• 6 Criminology
• Crime as Choice
• Crime as Social Control
• Predatory and Dispute-Related Violence: A Social Interactionist Approach
• Psychopathy: Theory and Research
• Violence: Treatment versus Correction

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

David P. Barash holds a Ph.D. in zoology & is professor of psychology & zoology at the University of Washington. He has been especially active in the growth & development of sociobiology as a scientific discipline.

(Bowker Author Biography)