Citation

Hartmann E. Rev. Synth. 2014; 135(4): 297-330.

Vernacular Title

Ordre social, légitimité et violence la violence physique comme fait social Soziale Ordnung, Legitimität und Gewalt physische Gewalt als sozialer Tatbestand.

Affiliation

Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Soziologie, Universität Potsdam, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, August-Bebel-Straße 89, D-14482, Potsdam, Deutschland, eddie.hartmann@uni-potsdam.de.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s11873-014-0270-y

PMID

25600016

Abstract

The article discusses theoretical as well as methodological issues of a general sociology of violence which aims at focusing on the dynamic relationship between social order, legitimacy, and physical violence. The article argues in favor of a relational approach consisting of a realistic appraisal (in an epistemological sense) of the actors' place in a locally ordered setting of relationships among objectified forms of social order, collective identities, and social interaction. The author's long term research objective is to develop a general sociology of violence grounded in social action theory, to form a basis for exploring the phenomena of physical violence in the neo-Durkheimian sense as social facts.

Language: fr