Social Conflict and Societal Anger

Abstract

Anger is the most common and most intense emotion in conflict and social relationships. This makes anger one of the essential issues that need to be studied sociologically in the social sense. Anger, which can spread rapidly and intensely in social relations, is likely to cause or result in social phenomena and events. A common aspect of social conflict and social anger is that they are seen as issues that need to be resolved immediately in society and in interpersonal relations, although both can have positive consequences an negative consequences. The fact that individuals have anger to another individual or group due to many sociological factors such as claiming a right on the other side, restriction of their own freedom, reminds the course of social conflict in society. In this context, social conflict and social anger are often intertwined. The point to be addressed here is the social process and possible social consequences when social anger and social conflict come together. In this sense, in this study, social anger is evaluated theoretically in the context of social conflict theory.

Keywords

• Anger
• Societal Anger
• Conflict Theory
• Social Conflict
• Mobility

Sosyal Çatışma ve Toplumsal Öfke

Abstract

Öfke, çatışma içerisinde ve sosyal ilişkilerde en yaygın ve en yoğun görünen bir duygudur. Bu da öfkeyi toplumsal anlamda sosyolojik olarak çalışılması gereken önemli konulardan biri haline getirmektedir. Sosyal ilişkilerde seri ve yoğun bir şekilde yayılabilen öfke duygusunun toplumsal olgu ve olaylara sebep olma ya da bunların sonucu olma ihtimali de yüksektir denilebilir. Sosyal çatışma ve toplumsal öfkenin ortak bir yanı her ikisinin de olumsuz sonuçlarla beraber olumlu sonuçları olabilmesine rağmen toplum içinde ve insanlar arası ilişkilerde derhal çözüme kavuşturulması gereken konular olarak görülmeleridir. Bireylerin karşı tarafta bir hak iddia etmeleri, kendi özgürlüklerinin kısıtlanması gibi daha birçok sosyolojik faktörden kaynaklı olarak başka bireye veya gruba öfke duymaları sosyal çatışmanın toplum içerisindeki seyrini hatırlatmaktadır. Bu bağlamda, sosyal çatışma ve toplumsal öfke çoğu zaman iç içedir. Burada ele alınması gereken nokta, toplumsal öfke ve sosyal çatışmanın bir araya gelmesi durumunda sosyal süreç ve olası toplumsal sonuçlardır. Bu anlamda, bu çalışmada toplumsal öfke, sosyal çatışma kuramı bağlamında teorik açıdan değerlendirilmektedir.

Keywords

• Öfke
• Toplumsal Öfke
• Çatışma Teorisi
• Sosyal Çatışma
• Hareketlilik

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