PT Journal
AU Coenen, E
TI Communicative Action, Objectifications, and the Triad of Violence
SO Human studies: a journal for philosophy and the social sciences
PD September
PY 2022
BP 447
EP 468
VL 45, 2022
IS 3
PU Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DI 10.1007/s10746-022-09639-1
WP https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00061787
LA en
DE Gewalt; Soziologie; communicative action; social theory; triad of violence; violence
SN 0163-8548
AB This article aims to develop a social theory of violence that emphasizes the role of the third party as well as the communication between the involved subjects. For this Teresa Koloma Beck’s essay ‘The Eye of the Beholder: Violence as a Social Process’ is taken as a starting point, which adopts a social-constructivist perspective. On the one hand, the basic concepts and the benefits of this approach are presented. On the other hand, social-theoretical problems of this approach are revealed. These deficits are counteracted by expanding Koloma Beck’s approach with a communicative-constructivist framework. Thus, the role of communicative action and the ‘objectification of violence’ is emphasized. These aspects impact the perception, judgement and (de-)legitimation of violence phenomena and the emergence of a ‘knowledge of violence’. Communicative actions and objectifications form a key to understanding violent interactions and the link between the micro and macro levels. Finally, the methodological consequences for the research of violence and Communicative Constructivism are discussed. Furthermore, possible research fields are outlined, which open up by looking at communicative action and the objectifications within the ‘triads of violence’.
PI Dordrecht; Dordrecht [u.a.]; Norwood, NJ
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