NCJ Number
116972
Journal
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Volume: 16 Issue: 1 Dated: (March 1989) Pages: 39-53
Date Published
1989
Length
15 pages
Annotation
This essay explores links between work, societal violence, social and economic injustice at home and abroad, and the propensity to resort to war.
Abstract
It clarifies the concept of societal violence and traces its roots to coercively established and maintained exploitative modes of work, exchange, and distribution. It suggests that overcoming violence in human relations requires transformations of work, exchange, and distribution in accordance with egalitarian, democratic, humanistic, and ecological values in order to eliminate obstacles to human development. Social policies and political strategies toward these ends are discussed in the concluding sections of the essay. 12 references. (Author abstract)