Sociobiology and Conflict - Evolutionary perspectives on competition, cooperation, violence and warfare (Hardcover, 1990 ed.)

1. 1 THE STUDY OF CONFLICT Polemos Pantoon Pater Heraclitus Conflict on all levels of organic existence is pervasive, persistent, ubiquitous. Conflict is the universal experience of all life forms. Organisms are bound in multiple conflict-configurations and -coalitions, which have their own dynamic and their own logic. This does not mean, however, that the more paroxysmal forms of conflict behaviour, naked violence and destruction, are also universal. Conflict and cooperation are always intertwined. Conflicts do, however, have a propensity to gravitate towards violence. There is, as Pettman (1975) pointed out, no accepted or agreed list of the social units by which conflicts might be classified. To talk of conflict in intra personal, inter-personal, familial, group, class, ethnic, religious, intra-state or inter-state terms is to assume, perhaps erroneously, that 'each kind of social unit, having its own range of size, structure, and institutions, will also have its own modes of interaction and thus its own patterns of conflict with other social units' (Fink, 1968) like and unlike itself. Such an assumption merits scrutiny on its own, since, despite the plausibility of some sort of analytical link between the parties to a conflict and the nature of the confrontation that ensues, the link should be demonstrated and not allowed to stand by assertion alone. This volume is devoted to one type of analysis of conflict, the socio biological one."

General

Imprint:	Chapman and Hall
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 1990
First published:	1990
Editors:	Johan Van Der Dennen
Authors:	V. Falger
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	338
Edition:	1990 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-412-33770-3
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Animal husbandry > General Promotions
LSN:	0-412-33770-3
Barcode:	9780412337703

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