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SOCIAL TERM: Διεθνική κοινωνία των πολιτών / Transnational civil society
APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 1
TERM TYPE: Theoretical
SOCIAL TERM: Παραδοσιακή κοινωνία / Τraditional society
APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 1
TERM TYPE: Theoretical
SOCIAL TERM: Αστικοποίηση / Urbanization
APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 1
TERM TYPE: Theoretical
SOCIAL TERM: Ωφελιμισμός / Utilitarianism
APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 1
TERM TYPE: Theoretical
DEFINITION (1): «This refers to a tradition in ethical theory that links rightness to happiness. The theory was classically formulated by Bentham who argued that acts are right if they promote happiness or pleasure and wrong if they lead to misery and pain. John Stuart Mill sought to modify Bentham’s theory by making a distinction between different kinds of pleasure, and arguing that individuals who had experienced both higher as well as lower pleasures would always choose the former over the latter. Mill sought to link utilitarianism to development, so that individuals could change their preferences as they changed their experiences» (Hoffman, 2007,pp.188-189).
DEFINITION TYPE: Nominal
DEFINITION WRITER: Markantonatou Maria
REFERENCE: Hoffman, J. (2007).A Glossary of Political Theory.Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
pp.188-189
SOCIAL TERM: Συλλογική βία / Collective violence
APPROVED DEFINITIONS FOR TERM: 1
TERM TYPE: Theoretical
DEFINITION (1): «Charles Tilly comparing different episodes of collective violence in the contemporary world argues that they can be understood and studied as a form of episodic social interaction, which «1) Immediately inflicts physical damage on persons and / or objects (“damage’ includes forcible seizure of persons or objects over restraint or resistance), 2) involves at least two perpetrators of damage, and 3) results at least in part from coordination among persons who perform the damaging acts. Collective violence, by such a definition, excludes purely individual action, nonmaterial damage, and long-term effects of such damaging processes as dumping of toxic waste. But it includes a vast range of social interactions.» (Tilly 2003: 3-4).
DEFINITION TYPE: Nominal
DEFINITION WRITER: Νίκος Σερντεδάκις
REFERENCE: Tilly, Charles. 2003. The Politics of Collective Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-4.

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