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Fifty research and study "propositions" in the area ofCONFLICT
Source: "The Analysis of Social Conflict - Toward an Overview and Synthesis" by Raymond Mack and Richard Snyder (in CONFLICT RESOLUTION: Contributions of the Behavioral Sciences, by Claggett Smith, University of Notre Dame Press, pp. 3-35)
Proposition 1: Intragroup harmony tends to reduce intergroup friction (industrial relations).
Proposition 2: Certain personality characteristics germane to particular national groups are conflict instigating (international relations).
Proposition 3: The more totalitarian a group, organization, or society, the greater the likelihood that its leaders will be aggressive (general).
Proposition 4: The more compartmentalized and restricted are the claims of a particular faith to define and regulate religious values, the less likely is religious group membership to be divisive (religious conflict).
Proposition 5: The more fixed the size of the "pie" to be divided, the more intense the conflict (industrial relations).
Proposition 6: Violence is more likely when a minority group is not content to accept the designation of low rank by majority groups and when it attempts to redefine the situation to permit its assimilation or equal ranking (racial conflict).
Proposition 7: The main source of persistence of intergroup hostility is the interlocking and mutual reinforcement of realistic and unrealistic conflict elements (general).
Proposition 8: As unions gain power, the duration of strikes decreases (industrial relations).
Proposition 9: Conflict with outgroups increases internal cohesion (general).
Proposition 10: Warlike attitudes may be expressions of deep-lying personality factors laid down in child rearing (international relations).
Proposition 11: If the power of two parties is not grossly unequal, agreement is more likely when both are least rigid in their positions (industrial and international relations).
Proposition 12: The major source of international tension resides between, rather than within, nations (international relations).
Proposition 13: Far from being necessarily dysfunctional, a certain degree of conflict is an essential element in group formation and the persistence of group life (general).
Proposition 14: Religious conflict persists because of the need to preserve or protect one’s power position (religious conflict).
Proposition 15: Conflict between groups becomes institutionalized (general).
Proposition 16: Ideational and symbological conflicts are more important than economic or political conflicts in straining international relations.
Proposition 17: Change in the relative power position of nations is the source of tension leading to conflict.
Proposition 18: Religious intergroup conflict is most likely to develop when there are no cross-pressures at work within the individual.
Proposition 19: Intensity of positions taken in religious conflict is a function of guilt and insecurity feelings over having taken such positions.
Proposition 20: Social conflicts are primarily realistic conflicts of power.
Proposition 21: Social conflict is normally accompanied by a felt or actual discrepancy in the power relations of the parties.
Proposition 22: If an adversary’s strength could be measured prior to engagement in conflict, antagonistic interests might be adjusted without conflict.
Proposition 23: Misunderstandings and misuse of words often contribute to lessening conflict between labor and management.
Proposition 24: Mediation increases the possibility of resolving conflict when the parties are small.
Proposition 25: Realistic conflict need not be accompanied by hostility and aggressiveness.
Proposition 26: It is more difficult to mediate controversy where costs of aggressive conflict are high.
Proposition 27: Social conflict cannot be integrative and functional in the absence of community.
Proposition 28: Ideological conflict is more intense and the parties thereto are more intransigent because of objectification of issues and lace of inhibitions on personal attacks.
Proposition 29: A high degree of intimacy between the parties, as contrasted with a high degree of functional interdependence, will intensify conflict.
Proposition 30: Important alternations in the balance of forces as between societies occurs as a result of profound changes internal to one or more societies.
Proposition 31: The more integrated into the society are the parties to conflict, the less likely will conflict be violent.
Proposition 32: Conflict sets group boundaries by strengthening group cohesiveness and separateness.
Proposition 33: Conflict reduces tension and permits maintenance of social interaction under stress.
Proposition 34: Conflict clarifies objectives.
Proposition 35: Conflict results in the establishment of group norms.
Proposition 36: Without conflict, accommodative relations would result in subordination rather than agreement.
Proposition 37: The early stages of conflict are often carried on with the object of establishing the intergroup nature of conflict.
Proposition 38: Persons with character disorders have a predilection for public positions, and the public has a predilection for electing such persons.
Proposition 39: Intrapersonal conflict between aggressive impulses and socially sanctioned moral norms of behavior leads to projection of aggression on external groups.
Proposition 40: The sources of international tension resides between, rather than within, nations.
Proposition 41: Belligerents in recent wars have not enjoyed greater sexual, economic, or prestige frustrations, . . . nor have they been more viciously manipulated by their leaders than have non-belligerents.
Proposition 42: Citizen loyalty to the nation and citizen loyalty to some kind of supranational organization are not incompatible, provided that the latter is perceived to meet new or independent needs.
Proposition 43: Conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States is to be understood partly in terms of institutional rivalry.
Proposition 44: Conflict between loosely organized groups (i.e., members are only peripherally involved in group activities or loyalty) is less intense.
Proposition 45: As organizations become more bureaucratic, nonrealistic conflict decreases, induced conflict increases.
Proposition 46: Internal political structures which effectively channels and accommodate discontent are less likely to exhibit external aggressiveness.
Proposition 47: To the extent that workers and unions are integrated into the general society, the propensity to strike is decreased.
Proposition 48: The higher the level of prosperity, the less intense the conflict between ethnic and racial majorities and minorities.
Proposition 49: Public debate is occasionally an aid in the mobilization of public interest, but extended public debate by the parties tends to harden their views.
Proposition 50: Techniques for getting parties together on agreement, once mediation has started, are very similar in international and labor fields.
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