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The Child and Nonviolent Social Change (1978)

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Elise Boulding: Writings on Peace Research, Peacemaking, and the Future

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Abstract

Any design for a nonviolent world must take special account of what happens to children, and what they are prepared for. Since in any case they are the shapers of the future, we cannot avoid an examination of the nature of the child and the impact of various socialization experiences on the child’s capacity to act nonviolently on a changing social order. The socialization model developed here draws on several different disciplinary frameworks and research areas that have not been brought together before in just this way. Included are (1) animal and human ethology, with emphasis on both genetic and developmental aspects of animal-man potentials; (2) a variety of social learning theories; (3) a delineation of the social spaces within which the individual receives social shaping and acts out roles; and finally (4) a review of studies on altruism and nonviolent activists in recent protest movements.

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Notes

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    This text was published as: “The Child and Nonviolent Social Change”, in: Israel Charny (ed.), Strategies Against Violence: Design for Nonviolent Change (Boulder, CO: Westview Press): 68–99. Per communication with Perseus Books dated 10 July, 2015 rights have reverted to the author, which are now held by J Russell Boulding, who has granted permission to reprint.

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    There is no attempt here to suggest what the full range of behavioral programs might be. We are discussing only those relevant to our topic.

  3. 3.

    Having recently been the horrified witness of (and intervener in) an attempt by one woman to kill another in a hotel corridor, I would add inter-female here.

  4. 4.

    These enthusiastic little explorers seem to give lie to Berger’s poetic presentation of Homo sapiens as the only creature who comes into an unfinished world and must, by his very nature, actively engage in continuous creation (Berger 1969).

  5. 5.

    “By the age of 14 these same young people appeared less open to positive views of foreign nations” (Torney/Morris (in press)).

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    Tarde’s name does not even appear in the standard work on socialization, Clausen’s Socialization and Society (Clausen 1968).

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Boulding, J.R. (2017). The Child and Nonviolent Social Change (1978). In: Boulding, J. (eds) Elise Boulding: Writings on Peace Research, Peacemaking, and the Future. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30987-3_6

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