Theoretical approaches to violence

Abstract

The historical perspective is necessary to find the psychosocial meaning in the different forms of violence and, in addition, to allow to understand that this has been present through the different eras of the development of humanity.
Many affirm that the man is a social being, supporting at the same time that the man is an aggressive being by nature, affirmations used many times to justify the violent human behaviors throughout all the history.
Faced with such affirmations of human behavior, others assert that it must be assumed with scientific rigor that the human being is neither warlike nor pacific, since such conditions are socially apprehended and transmitted from generation to generation through the processes of formal socialization and informal, impossible to isolate from human behavior.