Violence: a micro sociological theory/ (Record no. 150756)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780691133133 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 303.62 |
| Item number | COL/V |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Collins, Randall. |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Violence: a micro sociological theory/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Randall Collins. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Oxford: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Oxford University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2008. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xi, 563 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. ; |
| Dimensions | 24 cm. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | List of Illustrations<br/>List of Tables<br/>Acknowledgments<br/>Chapter 1. The Micro-sociology of Violent Confrontations<br/>Violent situations<br/>Micro-evidence: situational recordings, reconstructions, and observations<br/>Comparing situations across types of violence<br/>Fight myths<br/>Violent situations are shaped by an emotional field of tension and fear<br/>Alternative theoretical approaches<br/>Historical evolution of social techniques for controlling confrontational tension<br/>Sources<br/>Preview <br/>The Complementarity of Micro and Macro Theories<br/>Part I: The dirty secrets of violence<br/>Chapter 2. Confrontational Tension and Incompetent Violence<br/>Brave, Competent and Evenly Matched?<br/>The Central Reality: Confrontational Tension<br/>Tension/Fear and Non-performance in Military Combat<br/>Low Fighting Competence<br/>Friendly Fire and Bystander Hits<br/>Joy of Combat: Under What Conditions?<br/>The Continuum of Tension/Fear and Combat Performance<br/>Confrontational Tension in Policing and Non-military Fighting<br/>Fear of What?<br/>Chapter 3. Forward Panic<br/>Confrontational Tension and Release: Hot Rush, Piling On, Overkill<br/>Atrocities of War<br/>Caveat: the Multiple Causation of Atrocities<br/>Asymmetrical Entrainment of Forward Panic and Paralyzed Victims<br/>Forward Panics and One-sided Casualties in Decisive Battles<br/>Atrocities of Peace<br/>Crowd Violence<br/>Demonstrators and Crowd-control Forces<br/>The Crowd Multiplier<br/>Alternatives to Forward Panic<br/>Chapter 4. Attacking the Weak: I. Domestic Abuse<br/>The emotional definition of the situation<br/>Background and foreground explanations<br/>Abusing the exceptionally weak: time-patterns from normalcy to atrocity<br/>Three pathways: Normal limited conflict, severe forward panic, and terroristic torture regime<br/>Negotiating interactional techniques of violence and victimhood<br/>Chapter 5. Attacking the Weak: II. Bullying, Mugging, and Holdups<br/>The continuum of total institutions<br/>Mugging and holdups<br/>Battening on interactional weakness<br/>Part II: Cleaned-up and staged violence<br/>Chapter 6. Staging Fair Fights <br/>Hero versus hero<br/>Audience supports and limits on violence<br/>Fighting schools and fighting manners<br/>Displaying risk and manipulating danger in sword and pistol duels<br/>The decline of elite dueling and its replacement by the gun-fight<br/>Honor without fairness: vendettas as chains of unbalanced fights<br/>Ephemeral situational honor and leap-frog escalation into one-gun fights<br/>Behind the facade of honor and disrespect <br/>The cultural prestige of fair and unfair fights<br/>Chapter 7. Violence as Fun and Entertainment<br/>Moral holidays<br/>Looting and destruction as participation sustainers<br/>The wild party as elite potlatch<br/>Carousing zones and boundary exclusion violence<br/>End-resisting violence<br/>Frustrated carousing and stirring up effervescence<br/>Paradox: Why does most intoxication not lead to violence?<br/>The one-fight-per-venue limitation<br/>Fighting as action and fun<br/>Mock fights and mosh pits<br/>Chapter 8. Sports Violence<br/>Sports as dramatically contrived conflicts<br/>Game dynamics and player violence<br/>Winning by practical skills for producing emotional energy dominance<br/>The timing of player violence: loser-frustration fights and turning-point fights<br/>Spectators' game-dependent violence<br/>Off-site fans' violence: celebration and defeat riots<br/>Off-site violence as sophisticated technique: soccer hooligans<br/>The dramatic local construction of antagonistic identities<br/>Revolt of the audience in the era of entertainers' domination<br/>Part III: Dynamics and structure of violent situations <br/>Chapter 9. How Fights Start, or Not<br/>Normal Limited Acrimony: Griping, Whining, Arguing, Quarreling<br/>Boasting and Blustering<br/>The Code of the Street: Institutionalized Bluster and Threat<br/>Pathways into the Tunnel of Violence<br/>Chapter 10. The Violent Few <br/>Small numbers of the actively and competently violent<br/>Confrontation leaders and action-seekers: police<br/>Who wins? <br/>Military snipers: concealed and absorbed in technique<br/>Fighter pilot aces: aggressively imposing momentum<br/>In the zone versus the glaze of combat: micro-situational techniques of interactional dominance <br/>The 9/11 cockpit fight<br/>Chapter 11. Violence as Dominance in Emotional Attention Space<br/>What does the rest of the crowd do?<br/>Violence without audiences: professional killers and clandestine violence<br/>Confrontation-minimizing terrorist tactics<br/>Violent niches in confrontational attention space<br/>Epilogue: Practical Conclusions<br/>Notes<br/>References<br/>Index |
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| Keyword | Violence -- United States. |
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| Keyword | Violence -- United States -- Psychological aspects. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | General Books |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | General Book Section | 28/08/2016 | 303.62 COL/V | P05422 | 11/02/2020 | 11/02/2020 | General Books |