Resumen

ARTEAGA BOTELLO, Nelson  y  LARA CARMONA, Vanessa L.. Violence and social distance: a revision. Pap. poblac [online]. 2004, vol.10, n.40, pp.169-191. ISSN 2448-7147.

This present work emphasises the relationship established in sociogy between the concepts of "social distance", "conflict analysis" and "social violence". In the paper the first works of Durkheim and Simmel, to the ones of Collins and Grossman, are revised, going through the statistical indicators developed by Bogardus, to look for the conceptual link rxisting in them. Even if with the uances, given by each one of the cociology' s currents to the term of social distance, it results certain that, in the majority of the theories, this is referred to the process of social disorganisation produced by the lack of sufficiently extended "symbolic" and "special" contact of the segments or groups forming a society. In this sense, it results clear for the sociology that violence and conflict would have higher possibilities to appear if the distance among the social groupsis every time higher.

Palabras llave : social distance; conflict; violence; social cohesion; social disorganisation.