An outline of a pragmatic sociology of 'violence

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4354598
AutoresAlexandre Vieira Werneck (0000-0002-7529-7633, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Cesar Pinheiro Teixeira (0000-0002-8517-0281, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Vittorio Talone (0000-0003-4939-201X, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
Año2020
Volumen22
Número54
Páginas286-326
Fecha de publicación2020-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociologias (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1517-4522 • E-ISSN: 1807-0337
EditorialFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/15174522-96338
OpenAlexW3045076361
SCIELO_PIDS1517-45222020000200286
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas38

In this article we propose a model for a pragmatic sociology of violence. Based on a semiotic analysis of a primordial cognitive operation deployed in people's definition of situations, namely qualification, the essential characterization of things, the paper maps the meanings attributed to what both ordinary social actors and academic analysts treat as violence. Our analysis shows that this operation imbues a concrete object with meaning, the disproportionate use of force, whose resignifications compose a typology of five 'sociologies of violence,' both native and academic. These are: substantivist, constructivist, political, critical, and praxiological. To this gallery, we suggest the addition of another item: a pragmatic sociology. Taking the sign 'violence' as an interpretant, this sociology seeks to understand how, in people's qualifications, it functions as a connection between moral metaphysics (worldviews in which the deployment of disproportionate force makes sense) and devices capable of effectuating them

Criminology · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Metaphysics · Political science · Politics · Semiotics · Sign (mathematics · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of law · Typology · Anthropology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Philosophy · Social Representations and Identity · Sociology and Norbert Elias