NASILJE KAO PROIZVOD, IZRAZ I REZULTAT KULTURE
VIOLENCE AS A PRODUCT, EXPRESSION AND A RESULT OF CULTURE

Summary/Abstract: There are many ways in which a particular society solves the problem of violence. In this paper, however, we will talk about violence which is a direct or indirect result of culture, a consequence of normative, institutional, political action. Culture crucially shapes “acceptable” behavior, operation, action in a society, order. Normative violence follows a culturally shaped acceptable behavior, and, sometimes, it is the first step, the initiator of a certain culturally acceptable, desirable action. The rise of media influence in the middle of the twentieth century is associated with a general decline in social trust, and a decline in civic participation. In this regard, the increase in television viewing is associated with the weakening, the severance of neighborly relations. The decline in citizens’ trust is linked to the intensification of feelings of fear, mistrust and vulnerability. These feelings make people more susceptible to manipulation. Politics carries out propaganda with the aim of strengthening and enhancing prejudices about “the others”. Media propaganda of the axiological disproportion of different groups facilitates, encourages, enables institutional insistence on differences. Normative violence is the practice of legitimizing social, legal, economic, political inequalities within a specific order. It is an open path to legitimizing physical violence against those who have had their rights derogated from.

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