The Mob in South Africa
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 Posted in Violence | No Comments »Trouble has followed the Zimbabwe migrants to South Africa. In the last week there have been attacks on Zimbabweans and assorted other strangers by local gangs of roughnecks parading as warriors in and around Johannesburg but otherwise not clearly ...
Wild Versus Tame
Sunday, January 13th, 2008 Posted in Violence | No Comments »Our rules contradict our animal energetic. To be cultivated and cultured is to be under control. Before we could domesticate animals and plants we had to tame ourselves. The attempted dominance of a moral self over animal ...
The Violent Encounter
Thursday, January 10th, 2008 Posted in Asymmetrical Relationship, Violence | No Comments »A transitive action: One person or side acts violently against another. Then what does alter do? This is the initial phase of Parson's unit act--the beginning of interaction. So violence is a particular kind of verb, a doing of ...
Locating Violence within the Social Order
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 Posted in Violence | No Comments »I do not have a general theory of violence. I do not have a model of the social dynamic of violent action in its several settings. The unity is in the definition only--all actions with a probability of ...