Volume 10, Issue 1 (1992) Conflict Processing

From the time of Louis Wirth until the present, sociologists have written about conflict. Over the years, sociology as a discipline has demonstrated its unique perspective in conflict theory, practice, and research. In recent years, however, unprecedented interest in the study of conflict and its resolution has emerged. The articles in this volume of Sociological Practice are a sample of some of these developments and how the sociological perspective is applied to analyze conflict in a variety of social settings, with special attention given to conflict resolution. Conflict resolution can mean either the reduction, management, processing or settling of differences between people.

Read more from guest editors M. R. Volpe and P. R. Maida's Introduction to this issue, "Sociologists and the Processing of Conflict."