SOCIO-KULTURNA USLOVLJENOST LJUDSKE DESTRUKTIVNOSTI
SOCIO-CULTURAL CONDITIONING OF HUMAN DESTRUCTIVENESS

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes the socio-cultural factors of human destructiveness, through the scientific approaches of Erich Fromm and Johan Galtung. According to E. Fromm, aggression and destructiveness are not biologically determined impulses, but the reasons for their appearance should be sought in the political and economic conditions that we have created. Therefore, they are part of the character of a society, that is, they are socio-culturally conditioned. Johan Galtung's qualitative distinction between personal-direct-visible violence (direct, personal connection between the subject and the object of violence) and structural-indirect (in)visible violence (indirect, structured connection between the subject and the object) is important for the sociological analysis of violence. Structural violence is embedded in the structure of society, and it manifests itself as inequality of power and living conditions (uneven distribution of income, literacy, medical services, etc.).

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