Abstract: Violence is as old as human history. It has come in different forms during the transformation process of first man’s survival struggle for existence. Along ages, lots of thinkers examined the violence around and the violence took part in a way in their life, then they made different definitions. Environmental conditions and personal characteristics of individuals enabled different perception and definition of violence. From moving on that point, in this study different viewpoints on violence have been handled and approaches have been evaluated. So, this study also involves theoretical information. In this study which aims to understand violence through different point of views, violence has been examined on sociological scale.

 

 

Key words: violence, power, war, conflict