表題番号:2020C-434 日付:2021/04/09
研究課題The Social Mechanisms of Violence: A Theoretical Perspective
研究者所属(当時) 資格 氏名
(代表者) 国際学術院 国際教養学部 講師 中村 雄輝
研究成果概要

     The present research aimed to shed light on the social mechanisms of violence by exploring the concept of emergence. Emergence, which is the concept used to describe when a social phenomenon is more than the sum of its parts, was used to explain the interplay between the different manifestations of violence at the structural and individual level. The research aimed to expose certain elements that cannot be explained by focusing on one side alone. The act and social phenomena of harming others has been a topic that has been treated throughout the entire spectrum of the social sciences but what has baffled researchers is that there are characteristics in structural violence that cannot be found in the violence done at the individual level and vice-versa. The most notable characteristic being the perpetrator-less aspect of structural violence and the dissipation of accountability. Even at the individual level, properties such as (un)intentionality and unintended consequences of action also undergo complex social processes when the harm is committed by collective and organizational agents. The results of the present research were presented in the academic conferences of the  IV International Sociological Association Forum of Sociology and 2020 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting both conducted online due to the Corona virus pandemic.