When Men Revolt and Why

ISBN-13: 9781560009399 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 392 str.

James Davies; James Chowning Davies; James Davies

Opis

The environment within which humans interact has changed dramatically since the Industrial Revolution. However, their expectations stem from the same hopes and dreams people have had from the beginning of humankind. When Men Revolt and Why encourages readers to look closer and more deeply into the relationships between humans and the institutions that have originated to help them realize their full potential. The contributors not only examine people, but also the need to change institutions that have outworn their usefulness. When institutions inhibit rather than facilitate everyone's desire to live a full life, the result is likely to be violence. This book offers the ideas of many people who have tried to dig deeper into basic causes of violence. Included in this volume are selections by Aristotle, Tocqueville./Marx and Engels, and Brinton. The ideas they espoused still hold vitality. In his new introduction, James Davies talks about the circumstances under which this book was originally published. In Vietnam, a people were fighting for their autonomy. In the United States, many Americans were protesting against American involvement in the Vietnam War. Blacks were marching for their civil rights. Women were fighting for equality. Time has tempered these conflicts. Davies maintains that we remain ignorant of the elemental forces that impel people and nations to resort to violence. We are usually surprised by their anger and shocked by their violence. Davies asserts that we need to learn more about how humans respond to change so as to prepare ourselves for such responses to change. When Men Revolt and Why is as timely as ever as we deal with uncertainty in various areas of the world-- the former Yugoslavia, the Middle East, and Ireland, among others. It is especially pertinent for political scientists, historians, and sociologists.

Spis treści

Foreword to the Transaction Edition -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Libris Personae -- 1. Introduction -- 2. How individuals and societies meet the challenge of change -- A young man whofeared the future -- The Russian monk by thomas masaryk -- Two men who (mostly) welcomed the future -- The Lutheran tragedy by Margaret m. Phillips -- Some economics, politics, and warfare in the German reformation -- The peasant war in Germany by Friedrich engels -- Some economics, politics, and warfare in 20th-century Asia -- The village community in collision with capitalism by j . h . boeke -- When servants sever ties with masters -- The threat of abandonment by o. mannoni -- When servants sever ties with -- National independence by o. mannoni -- Group identity and marginality as factors in rebellion -- Riots and rioters by george wada and james c . davies -- Revolution in China in Mao Tse-tung -- Genesis of a Communist: Childhood by edgar snow -- Revolution in China in M ao Tse-tung Days in Changsha by edgar snow -- Revolution in China in M ao Tse-tung Prelude to revolution by edgar snow -- 3. Some general theory -- From the brows of ancient (and modern) Zeuses -- Politics by Aristotle -- From the brows of ancient (and modern) Zeuses Nicomachean ethics by aristotle -- Equality and rising expectations -- How the spirit of revolt was prompted by well intentioned efforts to improve the people's lot by alexis de tocqueville -- Equality and rising expectations How, though the reign of Louis X V I was the most prosperous period of the monarchy, this very prosperity hastened the outbreak of the Revolution by alexis DE TOCQUEVILLE -- Equality and rising expectations How, given the facts set forth in the preceding chapters, the Revolution was a foregone conclusion by ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE -- Nothing to lose and regain but your dogmas and righteousness -- Bourgeois and proletarians byKARLMARX and friedrichengels -- Some dynamics of revolutionary behavior -- A theory of revolutionary behavior by david c . Schwartz -- The revolutionary state of mind -- Toward a theory of revolution by james c . davies -- 4. Some mental and social antecedents of revolution -- The nonpolitics of survival -- Slavery and personality by Stanley m. elkins -- Aggression follows frustration -- Frustration and aggression: Definitions by j. dollard, Leonard W. DOOB, NEAL E. MILLER, ?. H. MOWRER, and ROBERT R. SEARS -- Aggression follows frustration Psychological principles: I by John DOLLARD AND OTHERS -- Aggression follows frustration Psychological principles: II by JOHN DOLLARD AND OTHERS -- Aggression, nature, and nurture -- The study of urban violence: Some implications of laboratory studies of frustration and aggression by Leonard berkowitz -- Conflict, cooperation, and revolution -- Conflict and the web of group affiliations by georg simmel -- 5. How some social scientists have combined theory and research -- Inequality in land -- Inequality and instability: The relation of land tenure to politics by BRUCE M. RUSSETT -- Socioeconomic change and political instability -- Rapid growth as a destabilizing force by mancurolson, jr . -- The cross-national analysis of political instability -- Aggressive behaviors within polities, 1948-1962: A cross-national study by ivok . feierabend and Rosalind l . feierabend -- Cross-national interviewing on political instability -- Gauging thresholds of frustration by lloyd a . free -- Violence as ends, means, and catharsis Political violence in Venezuela: 1958-1964 by edward w . gude -- Instability in Latin America Dimensions of social conflict in Latin America by douglas bwy -- Model building and the test of theory -- A causal model of civil strife: A comparative analysis using new indices by ted gurr -- 6. A durable generalization -- A nontentative opinion about “ some tentative uniformities” -- A summary of revolutions by crane brinton -- An elemental bibliography -- Notes.

O autorze

James Chowning Davies is professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oregon in Eugene. He is the author of Human Nature in Politics. He has written many articles in professional and scholarly journals and books.