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- Title
Somatic elements in social conflict*.
- Authors
Levine, Donald N.
- Abstract
Although social conflict has obvious ties with physical combat, the literature on social conflict ignores its corporeal substratum. Reviewing that literature yields a paradigm of sources of conflict comprising six major variables: hostility level, reactivity, rigidity, moral righteousness, weak conflict-aversive values, and ineffective dampening factors. Each of those variables has some representation in the body. Realizing this enables us to ask what kinds of conflict-relevant meanings emanate from processes within the human body itself, and what supra-organismic variables imbue bodily conduct with meanings that relate to conflict. That analysis in turn opens up a new dimension of the general theory of action by way of amending Parsons-Lidzes’s concept of the behavioural system. The chapter suggests calling this the actional organism – the subsystem of action where the organism’s input of energies and the inputs from sources of meanings meet and interpenetrate.
- Subjects
SOCIAL conflict; CONFLICT (Psychology) -- Social aspects; HOSTILITY; AGGRESSION (Psychology); RIGHTEOUSNESS; EFFECT of environment on human beings; PHYSIOLOGY
- Publication
Sociological Review, 2007, Vol 55, Issue 1, p37
- ISSN
0038-0261
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-954X.2007.00691.x