Sociologia da Violência

Ramo do Mestrado de Sociologia ISCTE-IUL 

 




Program 2021 PORTUGUESE VERSION


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Readings

Feb, 9th: Presentation and organization of the course

Violence in society, APD, 2014

Discrimination imbedded in social theory, APD (prezi; article in Jake M. Seery (Editor) International Perspectives on Social Theory, NY, Nova Science Publishers, 2019, pp. 95-120)

 

Violence and space: An introduction, Springer e Billon, 2016

Comments: one do not know/agree-about what is violence (is it different with space?); some effects do hide violence; non-violence; is it violence the oposite of peace?; geography of violence is an emerging subdiscipline; those involved on it do not engage in conversation; THERE IS NO REFERENCE TO STATE, TO CAPITAL, TO MODERNIZATION, to the Empire of Earth and its resources´ exploitation

 

Feb, 23th: Beyond Social Sciences

Family Secrets and the Slow Violence of Social Stigma,  Ashley Barnwell, 2019

For a Sociology of Flesh and Blood, Loïc Wacquant, 2015

  

Mar, 2nd Law and State violence rights

Immigrants Detention in Europe por Global Detention Project

Focus on a case of violence (method comment in Prezi)

 

Mar, 9th: Biology of violence

Hunger and the social catastrophe facing America’s youth by Kate Randall, 2016

 

Mar, 16th: Modern evolution of violence monopoly

Habermas, J., “Tendencies toward Juridification” in The theory of Communaticative Action, Cambridge, Polity Press: 356-373, 1987

 

Mar, 23th: Political use of violence

Robert I. Lerman and Stephanie R. Schmidt “An Overview of Economic, Social and Democratic Trends Affecting the U.S. Labor Market

 Richard  Lachmann (2018) TRUMP: How did he happen and what will he do

 

Apr, 13th: Social assistance hiding social violence

Human Rights through national borders”, Sociology Without Borders (4):382-297.  APD, 2019.

 

Apr, 20th: Gender violences and strugles in the globalization era

Video: Amnesty International, Take action to end violence against women,  

Harvard School of Public Health, “Globalization: Children and Working Parents Pay Too High a Price

Generation Five, Transformative Justice,

 

Apr, 27th: Activism and transformation

Violence and/or Non-Violence in the Success of the Civil Rights Movement: the Malcolm X – Martin Luther King Jr. Nexus”. New Political Science 38:1, 1-22, August H. Nimtz, 2016.

Buen Vivir: Today's tomorrow, by Eduardo Gudynas

Non violence quotes

 

May, 4th: Violence and social sciences

Overview of How Social Sciences Think the World's Social, Michael Kuhn, 2016

A.P.Dores (2019) Trauma as subordination tool (Prezi)

 

 

             1.       Violence and Social Theory
1.1. International Sociology Association Congres in Gutemburg, 2010
1.2. Conflict and violence, history and society, by Michel Wieviorka
1.3. Micro-interaction and emotional energy by Randall Collins
1.4. The scientific hiper-specialization by Bernard Lahire
2.       The struggle for prevention of violence
2.1. The devolopment critique by Alberto Acosta
2.2. The education to prevent violence by David Wolfe
2.3. The liberating politics on violence by Generation Five
2.4. Social importance of income by Wilkinson e Pickett e em Malcolm Torry

      3.       The limits of Social Theory and the taboo on violence
3.1.  Military societies and industrial societies by Spencer
3.2. The passion of interest and the social secrets in modern age by Hirshman
3.3. The surface and the dephs of the civilization by Norbert Elias
3.4. The instrumental violence and expressive violence by Parsons
3.5. Reductionism and reification by Mouzelis