Three Perspectives On Violence And The Three Types Of Violence

In the 1960s, Johan Galtung posited the construct of violence as a phenomenon generated by the existence of social barriers that deny needs satisfaction in certain sectors of society. Galtung's conceptual framework illustrates the relationship between the structure of society and the inequalities experienced by its citizens. Gilman's seminal definition of structural violence reads, “physical and psychological harm that results from exploitive and unjust social, political, and economic systems” (1983, p. 8).

“The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is to a more violent world” (Arendt pg 80). Violence is contagious, like a disease, which will destroy nations and our morals as human beings. Each individual has his or her own definition of violence and when it is acceptable or ethical to use it. Martin Luther King Jr., Walter Benjamin, and Hannah Arendt are among the many that wrote about the different facets of violence, in what cases it is ethical, the role we as individuals play in this violent society and the political aspects behind our violence.

The three degrees of violence I chose are physical violence, verbal violence, and prejudice. All of the types of violence I chose can be very hurtful, whether it hurts someone physically or emotionally. Violence is present everywhere. We see it on the news, we see it in person, we hear about it, and it’s overall all around us. Violence has always happened no matter when or where you are.

David Nirenberg talks about two types of violence, “cataclysmic violence” and “systematic violence”. The first part of the book discusses “cataclysmic” violence, while the second part of the book focuses on “systematic violence.”

Violence is one of the most personal and intimate acts between human beings, but it can also be cultural and societal in its implications.

Turpin and Kurtz (1996) define a number of problems with the current theories on violence. First, the traditional disciplinary approaches obscure the problem of violence even as they have also clarified part of it. Interdisciplinary work is the most creative approach to this issue, but it is discouraged in the academy. Second, scholars neglect the micro/macro issue, tending to focus on one particular level of violence. Third, conventional social science methodologies encourage narrow approaches to the study of violence, prompting a focus on one specific form of violence that is often limited in

Violence throughout our time has been evident ever since the beginning of our human species. From verbal to physical, one will not go through his/her lifetime without understanding the violent nature of other people. Richard Wilkinson brought up a point that “More unequal societies tend to be more violent” (Wilkinson 2). Wilkinson shows that there is a prominent correlation between income and homicide. Lower incomes shows higher rates of homicide. In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens shows how violence can flourish due to the inequality seen in the lower classes. Dickens uses violence to portray that a society filled with inequalities can lead to violence.

Violence can be described as a behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something. Violence has been around from the beginning and can be seen through history in writing and events that occurred. In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, violence’s jarring effects on societal members are evidenced through various relationships and partnerships, portraying society’s corrupt ideologies and ethics.

Just as the populace of Fahrenheit 451 was slowly anesthetized into living in the happy yet unreal world created from their parlor walls, the reality of the current perception of violence and abuse is stealthily hardening this world population hearts and minds to the horrors of violence against fellow beings (Bradbury, 1950). The current society turns an unconcerned eye to murder, abuse, disfigurement and more causing their humanity to decline a little each time they fail to be

Violence is not a single kind of activity, but rather a socially defined category of activities that share some common features. The play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare is about Hamlet’s rough life and how he copes with his father’s death knowing his uncle killed him. Throughout the play, Hamlet enforces violence through his actions by seeking revenge. Therefore, one can infer that violence limits people’s choices.

In my research regarding the topic of violence I would be using a combination of quantitative methods as well as qualitative methods. When dealing with an issue like this it is good to visually see numbers to help people see just how many people are being affected by the problem using numbers. Also, by using words this can help put everything into manner where people from all levels of education can understand the information. When you look into quantitative methods you can take people who have experienced it personally and help share their trauma to help others make better decisions.

As mentioned in the Main Thesis, there are three specific sections in “On Violence” book. In section I, the author cites a variety of historically relevant social scientists, with a focus on their thoughts on violence, war, and power. Engels (p. 4), Hobbes (p. 5), Chomsky (p. 7), Clausewitz (p. 8), Mao Tse-tung (p. 11), and Marx (p. 11-13) are cited in an attempt to frame the author’s discussion and definitions about the dynamic of power. In section II, Wright Mills (p. 35), Weber (p. 35), Clausewitz (p. 36), Strauz-Hupé (p. 36-37) and Jouvenel (p 37), Alexander Passerin d'Entréves’ The Nation of the State (37), the author makes it very clear that violence is the opposite of power, in which she will be explaining in section III. During this

Public violence has been an ongoing issue throughout the world for years. The notable problem is that no one knows or understands why someone kills violently. It is impossible to know when someone will go into a rage and shoot up a movie theater, blow up a crowded public building or visit a school with murder on the mind. People kill for attention or to feel better about something that made them angry. The study of crime along with psychologist and sociologist suggests that that people commit crimes when they model behavior after others they see being rewarded for the same acts. The rewards may include air time on television or a book detailing their crimes.

The history of human nature has been bloody, painful, and even destructive. Nonetheless, before understanding their environments humans used to kill each other based on their own mindset on the ideal of violence, and what it actually meant. Pinker describes narratives of violent acts from the past, that today are foreign to us. He gives us a tour of the historical human violence and how the violence in human nature has changed throughout time. The main idea from Pinker’s book,“The Better Angels of Our Nature ', is “for all the dangers we face today, the dangers of yesterday were even worse.” He provides its readers with explicit violent stories beginning from 8000 BCE to now, and describes how violence has evolved from a blood lost to more of a peaceful existence.

As one of the most extreme forms of human violence, torture has many long-term detrimental physical and mental health consequences. For those who have endured torture, a potential negative outcome of their experience can include the psychologists’ undermined role and legitimacy as a mental health professional (Olson & Soldz, 2007). Following periods of torture-based interrogations, survivors inexorably harbor distrust for psychologists. In the future, this could prevent them from seeking treatment for PTSD and related symptoms stemming from the traumatic experience of torture.