The origins of violence by cultural evolution

الگوسازی معادلات ساختاری تأثیر سرمایه فرهنگی بر خشونت خانگی علیه زنان

Aim: Domestic violence against women is a widespread social problem that can be found in most communities. The intensity and extent of violence against women can be influenced by different cultural and social factors such as cultural capital. The aim of this study is examined the relationship between cultural capital and domestic violence against married women in Mehriz city and provide Solutio...

Natural born killers: The genetic origins of extreme violence

a r t i c l e i n f o The current article examines the influence of genetics and evolution on acts of extreme and criminal violence among human primates. Moderate aggression can function to increase an organism's reproductive success; extreme violence can place the organism at unnecessary risk. Genetic polymorphisms that have been linked to extreme acts of violence are reviewed as is research e...

Functional Analysis of the Socio-cultural Factors of Violence against Women

Violence has dramatically increased in recent years. The statistics of social and cultural factors of the violence against women has turned into an acute social problem and this unnatural growth is a sign of different factors. If we want to reach a common and continuous solution there is a need for fundamental revisions through the political, social and cultural structures in order to pro...

Homicide and Cultural Evolution

Homicide rates are suitable materials for the study of “cultural evolution,” because they vary dramatically between societies (hence, are “cultural”) and change gradually rather than saccadically (hence, “evolve”). Sociological models of the sources of variation in homicide rates (“subcultures of violence”; demographic change; “legitimation of violence”; mass media effects) are criticized for i...

Conceptualizing cultures of violence and cultural change