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2 days ago · Biographies. Dongmeng Wang is a fellow at the Hubei Center for Social Development and Social Policy in Wuhan, China. His research interests include historical sociology and the sociology of war. Email: wdm@mails.ccnu.edu.cn. If you have citation software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice ...
3 days ago · Conflict theory is especially useful in understanding: war, wealth and poverty, the haves and the have nots, revolutions, political strife, exploitation, divorce, ghettos, discrimination and prejudice, domestic violence, rape, child abuse, slavery, and more conflict-related social phenomena.
13 hours ago · Extract. Michael Mann’s On Wars is a sociological comparative-historical analysis of armed conflicts across time and many parts of the globe. The empirical ballast of the book is case studies of countries and empires that have waged wars, from ancient Rome and China to medieval Japan and Europe, centuries of South and Central American conflicts, the US Civil War, and all major and some “small” wars (in terms of the size of territories and populations) in the twentieth and twenty-first ...
4 days ago · Marxism, a body of doctrine developed by Karl Marx and, to a lesser extent, by Friedrich Engels in the mid-19th century. It originally consisted of three related ideas: a philosophical anthropology, a theory of history, and an economic and political program.
- Marxism originated in the thought of the German radical philosopher and economist Karl Marx, with important contributions from his friend and colla...
- In the mid-19th century, Marxism helped to consolidate, inspire, and radicalize elements of the labour and socialist movements in western Europe, a...
- Under socialism, the means of production are owned or controlled by the state for the benefit of all, an arrangement that is compatible with democr...
- Marxism predicted a spontaneous revolution by the proletariat, but Leninism insisted on the need for leadership by a vanguard party of professional...
4 days ago · Our study found that girls tended to have a stronger relationship with their family and caretakers compared to boys after conflict. This aligns with previous research suggesting boys may face more ...
5 days ago · Thus, bridging social psychology theories to make sense of international relations empirical puzzles is attempted. Specifically, this study references the theory of self-control introduced by Walter Mischel after a series of studies made in the field of social psychology. This study argues that a state’s responses to crisis in the status quo ...
4 days ago · Genocide, the deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race. The term was derived from the Greek genos (‘race,’ ‘tribe,’ or ‘nation’) and the Latin cide (‘killing’). Learn more about the history of genocide in this article.
