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Sociobiology and Conflict
Falger, V. (Dept. Of International Relations, Utrecht University, The Netherlands). Ed(S): Dennen, Johan Van Der
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Description for Sociobiology and Conflict
Hardback. The aim of this text is to present new perspectives on the biological study of social behaviour. Evolutionary analyses of agonistic and antagonistic behaviour are discussed, including primative warfare, competitive behaviour, and the theory that conflict and co-operation are intertwined. Editor(s): Dennen, Johan Van Der. Num Pages: 338 pages, biography. BIC Classification: TVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 669.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Chapman and Hall United Kingdom
Number of pages
338
Condition
New
Number of Pages
338
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780412337703
SKU
V9780412337703
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