When Men Revolt and WhyJames Chowning Davies Transaction Publishers, 1. 1. 1997. - 357 страница The environment within which humans interact has changed dramatically since the Industrial Revolution. However, their expectations stem from the same hopes and dreams people have had from the beginning of humankind. When Men Revolt and Why encourages readers to look closer and more deeply into the relationships between humans and the institutions that have originated to help them realize their full potential. The contributors not only examine people, but also the need to change institutions that have outworn their usefulness. When institutions inhibit rather than facilitate everyone's desire to live a full life, the result is likely to be violence. This book offers the ideas of many people who have tried to dig deeper into basic causes of violence. Included in this volume are selections by Aristotle, Tocqueville./Marx and Engels, and Brinton. The ideas they espoused still hold vitality. In his new introduction, James Davies talks about the circumstances under which this book was originally published. In Vietnam, a people were fighting for their autonomy. In the United States, many Americans were protesting against American involvement in the Vietnam War. Blacks were marching for their civil rights. Women were fighting for equality. Time has tempered these conflicts. Davies maintains that we remain ignorant of the elemental forces that impel people and nations to resort to violence. We are usually surprised by their anger and shocked by their violence. Davies asserts that we need to learn more about how humans respond to change so as to prepare ourselves for such responses to change. When Men Revolt and Why is as timely as ever as we deal with uncertainty in various areas of the worldâ the former Yugoslavia, the Middle East, and Ireland, among others. It is especially pertinent for political scientists, historians, and sociologists. |
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Toward a theory of revolution | 134 |
Some mental and social antecedents of revolution | 149 |
The nonpolitics of survival | 151 |
Slavery and personality | 152 |
Aggression follows frustration | 165 |
Definitions | 166 |
I | 173 |
II | 176 |
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When servants sever ties with masters | 39 |
The threat of abandonment | 40 |
National Independence | 53 |
Group identity and marginality as factors in rebellion | 56 |
Riots and rioters | 57 |
Revolution in China in Mao Tsetung | 65 |
Childhood | 66 |
Days in Changsha | 73 |
Prelude to revolution | 79 |
Some general theory | 83 |
From the brows of ancient and modern Zeuses | 85 |
Politics | 86 |
Nicomachean Ethics | 89 |
Equality and rising expectations | 92 |
How the spirit of revolt was promoted by well intentioned efforts to improve the peoples lot | 93 |
How though the reign of Louis XVI was the most prosperous period of the monarchy this very prosperity hastened the outbreak of the revolution | 95 |
How given the facts set forth in the preceding chapters the revolution was a foregone conclusion | 97 |
Nothing to lose and regain but your dogmas and righteousness | 99 |
Bourgeois and proletarians | 100 |
Some dynamics of revolutionary behavior | 108 |
A theory of revolutionary behavior | 109 |
The revolutionary state of mind | 133 |
Aggression nature and nurture | 181 |
Some implications of laboratory studies of frustration and aggression | 182 |
Conflict cooperation and revolution | 188 |
Conflict and the web of group affiliations | 189 |
How some social scientists have combined theory and research | 203 |
Inequality in land | 205 |
The relation of land tenure to politics | 206 |
Socioeconomic change and political instability | 214 |
Rapid growth as a destabilizing force | 215 |
The crossnational analysis of political instability | 228 |
A crossnational study | 229 |
Crossnational interviewing on political instability | 250 |
Gauging thresholds of frustration | 251 |
Violence as end means and catharsis | 259 |
Dimension of social conflict in Latin America | 274 |
Model building and the test of theory | 292 |
A comparative analysis using new indices | 293 |
A durable generalization | 315 |
A nontentative opinion about some tentative uniformities | 317 |
A summary of revolutions | 318 |
An elemental bibliography | 326 |
Notes | 331 |