Youth Violence in Pakistan: The Social Structure and Culture of Violence

• Authors: Muhammad Zaman , Imran Sabir

Title variants

PL

Przemoc wśród młodzieży w Pakistanie: struktura społeczna a kultura przemocy

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Pakistan has been facing a high level of violence over the decades. Although a paucity of knowledge on this issue in Pakistan is observed, this essay nonetheless outlines the documented patterns of street-youth violence: its causes, perpetrators and the socio-cultural and political constructs of the phenomenon. The wide gap in both the empirical and theoretical knowledge of the ‘North and South’ of the intellectual global world impedes the researchers of the indigenous social problems to construct a comprehensive sociological perspective on the street-youth violence that exists in this region.

PL

W Pakistanie od dziesięcioleci odnotowuje się wysokie wskaźniki przemocy. Brak dostatecznej wiedzy na temat tego zjawiska w Pakistanie. Niemniej jednak niniejsze opracowanie stara się pokazać udokumentowane schematy przemocy ulicznej wśród młodych: jej przyczyny, sprawców a także konstrukty społeczno-kulturowe oraz polityczne tego zjawiska. Głęboki rozziew między wiedzą empiryczną i teoretyczną „Północy i Południa” w zglobalizowanym świecie intelektu stanowi dla badaczy miejscowych problemów społecznych przeszkodę w budowaniu kompleksowego socjologicznego spojrzenia na przemoc uliczną wśród młodych w tym regionie.

Keywords

EN

youth violence; social structure; culture of violence; Pakistan

• Publisher: Instytut Profilaktyki Społecznej i Resocjalizacji UW
• Journal: Profilaktyka Społeczna i Resocjalizacja
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 21
• Pages: 7-24

Contributors

author

Muhammad Zaman

author

Imran Sabir

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