Sociology of War and Violence

Name: Sociology of War and Violence
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ISBN: 9780521731690

ISBN-10: 0521731690

ISBN-13: 9780521731690

Edition: 2010

Authors: Sinia Maleeviï¿½

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List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/10/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 374
Size: 6.89" wide x 9.72" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Sinia Maleeviï¿½ is Senior Lecturer in the School of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has written and edited many books, chapters and journal articles including Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought (with Mark Haugaard, Cambridge, 2007), Identity as Ideology: Understanding Ethnicity and Nationalism (2006) and The Sociology of Ethnicity (2004).



Acknowledgments


Introduction: war, violence and the social


The cumulative bureaucratisation of coercion


Centrifugal idcologisation


The plan of the book



Collective violence and sociological theory



War and violence in classical social thought


Introduction


The 'holy trinity' and organised violence


The bellicose tradition in classical social thought


The contemporary relevance of bellicose thought



The contemporary sociology of organised violence


Introduction


The sources of violence and warfare: biology, reason or culture?


Organisational materialism: war, violence and the state


From coercion to ideology


Conclusion



War in time and space



War and violence before modernity


Introduction


Collective violence before warfare


War and violence in antiquity


War and violence in the medieval era


The institutional seeds of early modernity: war, violence and the birth of discipline


Conclusion



Organised violence and modernity


Introduction


Modernity and violence: an ontological dissonance?


The cumulative bureaucratisation of coercion


The centrifugal ideologisation of coercion


War and violence between ideology and social organisation


Conclusion



The social geographies of warfare


Introduction


The old world


The new world


Conclusion



Warfare: ideas and practices



Nationalism and war


Introduction


Warfare and group homogeneity


The structural origins of national 'solidarity'


Conclusion



War propaganda and solidarity


Introduction


War propaganda


Killing, dying and micro-level solidarity


Conclusion



War, violence and social divisions



Social stratification, warfare and violence


Introduction


Stratification without collective violence?


Stratification through war and violence


Warfare and the origins of social stratification


Justifying social hierarchies


Conclusion



Gendering of war


Introduction


The innate masculinity of combat?


Cultural givens?


The patriarchal legacy?


Gender, social organisation and ideology


Conclusion



Organised violence in the twenty-first century



New wars?


Introduction


The new-wars paradigm


The sociology of new warfare


Warfare between the nation-state and globalisation


The objectives of contemporary wars


What is old and what is new?


Conclusion


References


Index