Abstract

LINDEMANN, Gesa. Procedural Orders of Violence. Sociológica (Méx.) [online]. 2019, vol.34, n.98, pp.9-57.  Epub Mar 09, 2021. ISSN 2007-8358.

This article unfolds a new perspective on violence, which allows for understanding violence as a basic mode of socialization. To do so, the author combines different strands of the sociological discussion on violence, which often do not relate to each other. In particular he refers to three of these strands: violence as immediate embodied interaction, the relevance of third parties for the understanding of violence and the morality of violence. Furthermore, he relates these discussions on violence to the problems of the analysis of the borders of the social world. He pursue the hypothesis that violence can be grasped as mediated immediacy in the sense of Helmuth Plessner. Violence should be understood as an immediate act, which is symbolically mediated through the reference to mediating third parties. By being violent, actors display in a symbolically generalized way that both the addressee of the violent act and the actor have to be recognized as social persons, who are able to breach normative expectations or to claim the validity of those that were violated. If violence is understood as mediated immediacy, the analytical focus is broadened. Not only the immediate act is in the focus but also the mediating procedural order of violence.

Keywords : violence; procedural order of violence; third party; mediated immediacy; structural violence; borders of the social world.

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