The Social Context of Violent Behaviour: A Social Anthropological Study in an Israeli Immigrant Town / Edition 1

by Emanuel Marx

Overview

First published in 1976.
Violent behaviour occurs in every society. It grows out of the social order and can therefore be understood only in a social context. This book examines an orderly and relatively tranquil society, a small Israeli town settled by new immigrants, which is run by public agencies who pour in their resources to maintain the inhabitants. Circumstances have made the town an egalitarian society, but also limit its members' economic opportunities. This society has produced its special combinations of violent behaviour. The analysis extensively employs the 'case method' which has increasingly been used by social anthropologists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415330343
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/26/2004
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Anthropology and Ethnography
Pages:	148
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Social Definitions of Violence; Chapter 3 The Setting; Chapter 4 Coercive Violence; Chapter 5 Appealing violence; Chapter 6 Private violent Appeals; Chapter 7 A Theory of Individual Violence;