SOCIO221 CH 15

behavior that is intended to bring pain or physical injury to another person or to harm or destroy property

humans engage in a physical assault against another human

• Collective Violence
• Interpersonal Violence

an organized violence by relatively large groups of people to promote or resist some social policies or practices

a mob of White people lynched a Black man and forced other Black people to leave Forsyth County in 1912

violence wherein a person in pursuing his or her own personal goals or is responding to the stresses of an immediate situation

a gang member shot at a member of another gang and missed, but killed an innocent regnant woman who was in the area

strife or conflict that is threatening to the public order and that involves the government in some fashion, either as a party to the conflict or as a guardian of the public interest

• riots
• labor conflicts

the continued use of a psychoactive substance at a level that violates approved social practices

the use of the substance meets social disapproval and has negative consequences for the user's health, harms the user's relationships with others, and is a threat to others

conflicts wherein people will attack other people or attack property, merchandise, or equipment

the Watts Riot of 1965

conflicts wherein employees become pitted against employers and their representatives

the Ludlow Massacre of 1914

• Communal Riots
• Commodity Riots

conflicts wherein people will attack other people

the Detroit riot of 1943

conflicts wherein people will attack property, merchandise, or equipment

the Waycross Georgia riot of 1968

a situation wherein groups resort to violence as a means of changing the government or economy

it can take the form of an insurrection, war, or terrorism

• war
• insurrection
• terrorism

an organized action by some group to rebel against the existing government and to replace it with new political forms and leadership

• the effort of the southern states to secede form the USA in 1861
• the effort of John Brown to attack the arsenal at Harper's Ferry in 1859

an organized action wherein one group or country will attempt to annihilate another group or country with overwhelming fire power

• the USA has been on of the most war-prone countries in the world
• between 1798 and 1945 the president of the USA sent troops abroad for military purposes without the approval of Congress 163 times - an average of more than once per year

the attempt to achieve political goals by using fear and intimidation to disrupt the normal operations of a society

• the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 by Al Qaeda
• the attack on the Oaklahoma City federal building in 1995 by Timothy McVey which killed 167 people and wounded 442

an inability to achieve sought after goals

• people get frustrated when they cannot get a job they feel they are qualified to get
• people get frustrated when they perceive they are being oppressed or exploited
• frustration are among the roots of political violence in the form of terrorism

the fact that people tend to feel deprived or frustrated in comparison to what other have or what they believe they deserve

people can have a sense of deprivation when there is a discrepancy between what they have come to expect or feel they deserve and what they actually receive

a situation wherein one group or country in a conflict is able to deal overwhelming damages to another group or country

a country can try to prevent a war by amassing weaponry to use as a threat to another country

a situation two groups or two countries in a conflict have that might to destroy the other

the USA and the USSR during the early 1960s had the might to destroy each other and that prevented a war

a situation where two groups or two countries in a conflict avoid a nuclear holocaust because the military capability of one side roughly balances that of the other side

Pakistan and India have the might to destroy each other and that has prevented a nuclear war over the Kashmir territory

the norms and values that condone and legitimize the use of violence in resolving conflicts

there is a tendency in the USA to resolve interpersonal conflicts with physical assaults which often involve weapons, including guns and knives