The Limits to Social Structure

Social Structural and Psychocultural Explanations for Political Conflict and Violence

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2582086
AutoresMarc Howard Ro, Marc Howard Ross (autor de correspondencia)
Año1986
Volumen59
Número4
Páginas171
Fecha de publicación1986-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnthropological Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-5491 • E-ISSN: 1534-1518
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3317331
OpenAlexW2323537128
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas23

Social structural explanations for conflict, violence, and warfare abound because there is, indeed, an association between the social organization ofa society and the levels, targets, and conflict management techniques it uses. At the same time, social structural explanations are inadequate in at least two important ways. First, on the empirical level, recent research on political violence and conflict (Ross 1985, 1986) shows that social structural models for conflict are incompletely specified. Second, theoretically, many social structural theories ofconflict fail to articulate how the apparent interests of social groups are converted into organized political action. Failure to consider the psychological dimensions of social action on the empirical and theoretical levels renders many structural theories arbitrary and tautological

Criminology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Cultural Differences and Values · Law · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence