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It was not until the late 1980s that social sciences research into political violence first began to deal systematically with collective violence against the persons, lives, and property of ethnic groups, just as researchers into ethnic conflicts, conversely, had long paid little heed to the dynamics of violence (Brubaker & Laitin, 1998:423). As late as 1992, Jenkins and Schock were deploring the fact that a “huge empirical gap currently limits our understanding of ethnic antagonisms” (181). There were several reasons for this neglect: The sociological modernization theory, which saw a steady decline in the significance of ascriptive features; the selection of new social movements as paradigms of collective behavior; the problems experienced by sociologists in dealing with physical violence and emotions; and the treatment of ethnic conflicts as epiphenomena of economic interests and contradictions (Hanf, 1989:314).
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Bergmann, W. (2003). Pogroms. In: Heitmeyer, W., Hagan, J. (eds) International Handbook of Violence Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-306-48039-3_19
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