The termination of conflict

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6284606
AutoresLewis A Coser (Brandeis University, autor correspondente)
Ano1961
Volume5
Fascículo4
Páginas347-353
Data de publicação1961-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/002200276100500401
OpenAlexW2025338500
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas18
Referências citadas5

cises mark completion of the process. Other social processes, however, such as friendship or love, have no precise termination point. They follow a law of social inertia insofar as they continue to operate if no explicit provision for stopping their course is made by the participants. Social conflict is such a process. While in a game, for example, the rules for the process include rules for its ending, in social conflict explicit provisions for its termination must be made by the contenders. If no mutual agreements are made at some time during the struggle, it ceaseth only in death or in total destruction of at least one of the

Friendship · Inertia · Law and economics · Point (geometry · Political science · Politics · Process (computing · Social conflict · Sociology · Business Strategy and Innovation · Computer Science · Economic Theory and Institutions · Game Theory and Voting Systems · Law · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Psychology