Prilog sociološku određenju rata kao društvene pojave
Contribution of War to Sociological Determination as a Social Phenomenon

Summary/Abstract: When one considers the history of wars, one notices the phenomenon of the continual enrichment of the contents of war as a disjunctive social process. And it seem s to be one of the general laws of the existence of war as a social phenomenon. Its consideration, therefore, is a methodological demand which should not be neglected in the sociological determination of w ar. We could say. in short, that in this article we have established the essential theoretical-methodological standpoint of the sociological determination of war as a social phenomenon: that wars have been waged since the beginning of hum an society; that war is the most antagonistic disjunctive social process because it is actually an action the purpose of which is the realisation of the interests of the belligerent side, the forcing of its will on the adversary and that this is achieved through armed com bat, also that it is, as such, a phenomenon which does not itself contain its purpose; that war is not only a form , but also a means of solving social contradiction and therefore the sociological determination of war also means and explanation of its social justification, which may be achieved by establishing its socio-political essence through the application of complex criteria; that armed com bat, as the main method of demonstrating the social nature of war, through its own, relatively independent nature, has multiple effects on the emergence of war as a form of solving social contradiction; that w as is a socio-historical phenomenon not only by its patterns, but also by the fact that the quantity and quality of each factor relevant to the waging of war is separately conditioned, including socio-historically; that there is a connected between war as a form of solving social contradiction and the general historical process of the integration of hum an society; that with the development of social life the contents of w ar is continually enriched as a disjunctive social process.

• Details
• Contents