Collective violence and collective violent practices: principles of sociological analysis

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the concept of "collective violence". The peculiarity of the existing scientific understanding of the phenomena of collective violence is the restriction of its boundaries by the administrative-political context. It is emphasized that within the framework of this approach structured and unstructured collective violence is allocated. The conditions and peculiarities of their interconnection are analyzed. A new strategy of the studying of collective violence phenomena in the practical paradigm framework is proposed, which in particular allows to go beyond the scope of understanding of collective violence only in the administrative-political sense. In the context of the practical paradigm, the level of politicization of collective violence, as well as its structuring, is determined, which strengthens the principles of sociological understanding of the individual and complex manifestations of this social phenomenon.