The Fatal Correspondence Between Desintegration in the Educational Context and Social Dominance, Resulting in Violence in the Schools [D]
Wassilis KassisThe desintegration observed in the two most relevant educational fields – the home and the school – is coupled with orientations of social dominance by means of structural equation models, and the combined effects of these factors on the emergence of violence are examined. The results of this gender-related analysis on 184 boys aged 15/16 bring evidence of remarkable connections as well as alarming processes of escalation between desintegration in the educational socialization fields of family and school, and orientations of social dominance. The physical violence practiced by adolescent boys at school is therefore perceived as a phenomenon which cannot be completely understood only from the point of view of innerpsychic functions.
Swiss Journal of Sociology, 35 (3), 2009, 431-452
