TY  - JOUR
A1  - Coenen, Ekkehard
T1  - Communicative Action, Objectifications, and the Triad of Violence
T2  - Human Studies
N2  - This article aims to develop a social theory of violence that emphasizes the role of the third party as well as the communication between the involved subjects. For this Teresa Koloma Beck’s essay ‘The Eye of the Beholder: Violence as a Social Process’ is taken as a starting point, which adopts a social-constructivist perspective. On the one hand, the basic concepts and the benefits of this approach are presented. On the other hand, social-theoretical problems of this approach are revealed. These deficits are counteracted by expanding Koloma Beck’s approach with a communicative-constructivist framework. Thus, the role of communicative action and the ‘objectification of violence’ is emphasized. These aspects impact the perception, judgement and (de-)legitimation of violence phenomena and the emergence of a ‘knowledge of violence’. Communicative actions and objectifications form a key to understanding violent interactions and the link between the micro and macro levels. Finally, the methodological consequences for the research of violence and Communicative Constructivism are discussed. Furthermore, possible research fields are outlined, which open up by looking at communicative action and the objectifications within the ‘triads of violence’.
KW  - Gewalt
KW  - Soziologie
KW  - violence
KW  - social theory
KW  - communicative action
KW  - triad of violence
Y1  - 2022
UR  - https://e-pub.uni-weimar.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/docId/4882
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20230124-48828
UR  - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10746-022-09639-1
VL  - 2022
IS  - 45 (2022)
SP  - 447
EP  - 468
PB  - Springer Science + Business Media B.V
CY  - Dordrecht
ER  -