title: Genocide as a matter of degree.
abstract: This article employs Max Weber's ideal-type method to classify genocides based on their degree of mass killing, unilateralism, and ethnic liability. The identification of the elements of genocide draws from a general theory of genocide (Campbell 2009, 2010) and from theories of social control employing Donald Black's (1995, 1998) theoretical approach, known as pure sociology. Because these theories identify the social features associated with each element of genocide, they can explain the form genocides take.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology California State University, Los Angeles, USA. bcampbe3@calstatela.edu
authors.forename: Bradley
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Campbell
mesh_terms: D006708:Homicide / Q000145:classification* / Q000941:ethics; D006801:Humans; D008399:Mass Behavior; D012926:Social Control, Formal; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology