Open AccessKonflikt polityczny: interdyscyplinarny i wielopłaszczyznowy przedmiot badań
Author(s) -
Leszek Sobkowiak
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
wrocławskie studia politologiczne
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1643-0328
DOI - 10.19195/1643-0328.22.1
Subject(s) - politics , social psychology , subject (documents) , epistemology , sociology , conflict theories , social conflict , cognition , psychology , social science , conflict resolution , political science , law , computer science , philosophy , library science , neuroscience
Political conflict: interdisciplinary and multi-faceted subject matterCategories and theories that describe and explain conflicts and their properties, which derive from sociology, psychology and political science, use different levels of social-political reality: from meta-theories for example functional and coercive to theories concerning psychological processes. The aim of social sciences is to study political conflict in the following perspectives: social systems featured by unequal access to valued symbolic and material goods; cognitive, emotional and motivational processes of people participating in conflicts; patterns and actual behaviors in conflict situations; mechanisms of conflict dynamics — cause-and-effect relationships that determine phases of conflict development; functions of conflicts, their creative and destructive effects on individuals, groups, societies and global society; integrative methods of conflict-solving as an element of positive sum game strategy; and at last, shaping the institutions of social systems capable of „civilizing” conflicts through limitation of their destructive sources, methods and effects.