Roots of Evil The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence

Name: Roots of Evil The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence
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ISBN: 9780521422147

ISBN-10: 0521422140

ISBN-13: 9780521422147

Edition: 1992

Authors: Ervin Staub

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How can human beings kill or brutalize multitudes of other human beings? Focusing particularly on genocide, but also on other forms of mass killing, torture, and war, Ervin Staub explores the psychological, cultural, and societal roots of group aggression. He sketches a conceptual framework for the many influences on one group's desire to harm another: cultural and social patterns predisposing to violence, historical circumstances resulting in persistent life problems, and needs and modes of adaptation arising from the interaction of these influences. Such notions as cultural stereotyping and devaluation, societal self-concept, moral exclusion, the need for connection, authority…

Book details

List price: $62.99
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/31/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 354
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English