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A Hormonal Interpretation of Collins's Micro‐sociological Theory of Violence
Author(s) -
MAZUR ALLAN
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal for the theory of social behaviour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.615
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1468-5914
pISSN - 0021-8308
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5914.2009.00411.x
Subject(s) - interpretation (philosophy) , biosocial theory , face (sociological concept) , epistemology , sociology , dominance (genetics) , sociological theory , psychology , social psychology , philosophy , social science , linguistics , biochemistry , chemistry , personality , gene
Collins (2008) provides a grand theory that unifies all forms of human violence occurring in face‐to‐face situations, ranging from spousal abuse to medieval warfare. Laitin (2008) appreciates Collins's microscopic analysis of diverse data but points to important shortcomings in the theory, especially Collins's metaphoric explanations that are not testable. Here Collins's theory is merged with an existing biosocial model of dominance, replacing the metaphors with tangible, measurable hormonal mechanisms.