SOC 1000 Unit 7 Vocabulary

war

collective violence

bellicosity

describes an attitude that hopes for actual war to happen

culture of violence

those aspects of culture, the symbolic sphere of our existence exemplified by religion and ideology, language and art, empirical science and formal science, that can be used to justify or legitimize direct or structural violence

propoganda

information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular cultural/political cause or point of view

organized violence

coordinated aggression

militarism

explained as capitalist elite to defend and increase economic holdings through colonization or conquest

Military Industrial Complex

Comfortable relationship between government entities, defense-minded organizations, and manufactures

power elite

the top leaders (corporate, political, military)

globalization

The process by which people worldwide become increasingly connected economically, politically, socially, culturally, and environmentally

colonialism

the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically

symmetric warfare

battles between two comparable forces, usually represented in a inter-state war

asymmetric warfare

destabilizing the military by going after civilians

total war

Warfare that includes any and all civilian associated resources and infrastructure as legitimate military targets

scorched earth policy

part of total war, destroying infrastructure or resources of the enemy

ethnic cleansing

the mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society

genocide

a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves (crimes against humanity)

new-war paradigm

progression from symmetric to asymmetric warfare

terrorism

The unlawful use of violence or threat of violence to instill fear and coerce governments or societies