Social Research articles from September 2000

Social Research archives from September 2000

Violence Viewed and Reviewed.
September 22, 2000... Observers of human violence divide into three camps: idea people, behavior people, and relation people. Members of the three camps differ in their understanding of fundamental causes in human affairs. Idea people stress consciousness as the...

Film Violence and the Institutionalization of the Cinema.
September 22, 2000... SOCIAL scientists have traditionally conceptualized media as serving one of two functions in society: Either they effect social change, as in the case of muckraking journalists whose illumination of social ills and inequities contributed to...

Emotions as Mediators and Modulators of Violence: Some Reflections on the "Seville Statement on Violence"(*).
September 22, 2000... The Seville Statement on Violence THE year 2001 marks the 15th anniversary of the creation and signing of the Seville Statement on Violence. This widely distributed document (Adams, 1991), which presented its position on the role of...

The Political Economy of Protection Rackets in the Past and the Present(*).
September 22, 2000... Introduction THIS article is intended to demonstrate the relevance of historical sociology of state formation and market building in order to understand the extraordinary proliferation of private violence in Russia that accompanied the...

Punishment and Violence: Is the Criminal Law Based on One Huge Mistake?
September 22, 2000... FOR the past three millennia, since the time of the first law-givers--Hammurabi and Moses, Drakon and Solon, Plato and Aristotle, Cicero and Justinian--humanity has been engaged in a massive exercise in social research. We have been conducting...

Violence, Identity and Spaces of Contention in Chile, Argentina and Colombia.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... VIOLENCE is no stranger to Latin American politics. Looking at politics from the bottom up, we can find a long history of guerrillas, banditry, and violent protest. But, far more often, violence in Latin America has been the work of states....

The Political Economy of Violence against Women During Armed Conflict in Uganda.
September 22, 2000... I couldn't run because I have two children. I stayed in the house with them. After a while someone pushed the door open and flashed a torch at me. I realized he was a soldier. He threatened me with death if I made an alarm or noise. He then...

A Woman's Place: Reflections on the Origins of Violence.
September 22, 2000... OURs is a time when the rise of feminism is causing most male-dominated fields to be opened to women. In view of this fact, does there exist a single field in which men are at a clear advantage and women will never be able to play more than a...

Investigating Criminal Violence(*).
September 22, 2000... THIS essay examines the ways of knowing of men and women who investigate and fix responsibility for violent crimes. The issues are: What is the notion of "truth," or more exactly, justified belief in the wood of criminal investigators? What are...

The Time of Kali: Violence between Religious Groups in India.
September 22, 2000... ON the afternoon of December 11, 1990, a Muslim auto-rickshaw driver named Sardar was stabbed outside a coal depot in the old part of the city of Hyderabad in the south of India. The assailants were two Hindu youths. Muslims retaliated by...