SOC-STD 98mb - Violence and Culture

Institution:

Harvard University

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Description:

This tutorial explores the cultural meanings and experiences of violence. We examine how everyday people experience violence and the strategies they take to understand, challenge, or even perpetuate it. While contextualizing violence in socioeconomic realities, we explore the discourses and practices by which violence becomes considered legitimate, abhorrent, worthy of human rights attention, or even state-sanctioned. We consider how scholars represent violence that is simultaneously collective, political, and social while also subjective, emotional, and personal.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.harvard.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 495-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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