The Ambivalent Nature of Human Aggressiveness
The Ambivalent Nature of Human Aggressiveness
Author(s): Ecaterina MorarSubject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: POLIROM & Universitatea Bucureşti - Dept. de Sociologie şi Asistenţă Socială
Keywords: human aggressiveness; structural violence; human vulnerability
Summary/Abstract: The author analyses the theme of aggressiveness starting from the ascertainment that this phenomenon has been explored ever more often under the impact of the structural violence registered in the contemporary society. Stress is laid on the ethological study of aggressiveness, its moral consequences being mainly emphasized. The study argumentation reaches the idea in keeping with which aggressiveness should be considered as an entity, with two opposed and complementary faces: the force and vulnerability of the individual confronted with limit situations.
Journal: Revista de Asistenţă Socială
- Issue Year: 2012
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 7-11
- Page Count: 5
- Language: English
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