Cultural Violence

Question 1

Cultural violence definition

Answer 1

Aspects of culture, the symbolic sphere of our existence; exemplified by religion and ideology, language, and art, empirical science and formal science (logic, mathematics) - that can be used to justify or legitimize direct or structural violence.

Question 2

Purpose of cultural violence

Answer 2

Cultural violence makes direct and structural violence look, even feel, right- or at least not wrong. Just as political science is about two problems - the use of power and the legitimization of the use of power- violence studies are about 2 problems:
-The use of violence and the legitimization of that use.