Conflict and the Social Bond: Peace in Modern Societies

ISBN-13: 9780367728250 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 160 str.

Michalis Lianos

Opis

What is it in our social nature that makes us conduct wars, genocides and persecutions? The answer lies in how we are programmed to bond and form communities that demand loyalty in order to let us belong. The analysis in this book cuts through the social sciences in order to show the fundamentals of violent conflict.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Human Sociality and the Origins of Conflict  2. Conflict as Closure  3. Conflict as Change  4. Persistence of Conflict and Conversion to the Enemy  5. Plurality and the Rise of the Individual  6. A Turn in Human Sociality  A Coda on Peaceful Social Change and the Benefits of Sociodiversity

O autorze

Michalis Lianos is Professor at the University of Rouen and the editor of European Societies, the journal of the European Sociological Association. He is the author of The New Social Control (2012) and numerous other publications in the domain of late modern sociality. He has conducted several international research projects in the areas of risk, uncertainty, insecurity and conflict and has taught in various European countries.