VIOLENCE CATEGORY IN SOCIOLOGY: EXPERIENCE OF THEORETICAL METHODOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

In this article the violence concept based on the analysis of the western and Russian literature is considered, the main approaches to understanding of this phenomenon, which developed in violencology and Russian sociology, are allocated. Novelty of the author's approach to the definition of violence consists in differentiation of interpersonal, group and social forms of violence and creation of the corresponding definitions through the categories “action”, “interaction” and “social organization”.