11th week posting : Hyewon Lee (이혜원)

MAIN TOPIC : The Causes of War

2016. 11. 11 / Hyewon Lee (이혜원)

1_What I learned with eleventh week Wikipedia link.

 Representatives from various fields of learning tried to explain the war.

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By Veteran Affairs Canada [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

-Historians: There are some conditions and circumstances that make war occur but there can be no system for anticipating where and when each one will happen.

-Psychological theories: Psychologists have argued that human beings, especially men are inherently violent. And war is the occasional outlet.

-Anthropological theories: Anthropologists think the war was basically acquired by cultural nurture rather than by nature.

-Sociological theories: War is a product of the economic, social, and political situation within each of the states involved.

-Information theories: All wars are based on a lack of information. Lack of information can be about who will win in the near future.

-Economic theories: War can be thought as a result of economic competition in a chaotic international system.

-Marxist theories: All war grows out of the class war.

2_Mention & Question about this week study.

 I have only thought that the cause of war is a difference of interest. Reading this article, however, I realized that the cause of the war can vary depending on the aspect of one's view. Also, I can feel the meaning of sociology that can contain various parts of our lives.
 In modern society, there are not that many wars. But maybe our daily argument is also a kind of war. I hope that I will get the ability to understand other people's position. Studying Sociology, I think I might get the ability.
 And I wonder if other classmates have any personal ideas about the causes of the war!

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