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Section IV.3. Conflict (p. 58 – p.61) Words:

goal-oriented

deliberately

harm

harmful

antagonist

restriction

injury

foe

distinctive

orderly

pathological

unsophisticated

rape

integrative

self-limiting

consolidation

nationhood

falsity

establishment

similarly

costly

apparent

expansion

incompatible

anarchy

affluent

populace

layman

scholar

confrontation

to threaten

to submerge

Phrases:

to win at any cost

to be quite orderly

immediate results

beneficial effects

to cumulate rapidly

snowballing tendency

to be inherently divisive

orgy of distribution

societal survival

divisiveness of conflict

to fulfill useful functions

to promote loyalty/ short-run social change

to submerge rivalries

“spirit of conquest/industry”

to bring about

indispensable expansion

a sterile warlike ardour

adequate growth

to achieve stability

to fulfill socially useful functions

Commentaries and Notes:

1. untoward effects – неблагоприятные результаты.

2. the snowballing tendency – тенденция к разрастанию; snowball – снежный ком; ср.русск.- «растет как снежный ком».

3. nothing else in human experience exacts such a toll ; to exact - to get smth. from someone by forcing them or using force; a toll – зд. дань.

4. the outward costs- явные издержки, очевидные потери.

5. spirit of conquest – дух завоевания.

6. spirit of industry – дух созидания.

7. Nor can we set up… - И мы также не можем...- здесь используется инверсия.

8. the divisiveness of conflict – разделяющий характер конфликта.

Exercises:

        1. Find Russian equivalents for:

at any cost, first blow, a frenzy of skull cracking, school dropout, beneficial effect, to have untoward effects, to be useful and socially integrative, to lead to complete breakdown, interpersonal exchanges, to have a chance to operate, to exact such a toll, to be inherently divisive, societal survival, race wars, to keep the support of the populace, the very existence of the society itself, outward costs, to promote short-run social change, to submerge rivalries, to win concessions from the administrations, to be torn by dissent in peacetime, to unify groups, to be handled by, great mission, to restrain within society, to achieve stability.

        1. Find English equivalents for:

конфликт является целенаправленным, вред, ограничение, соперник, дань, уничтожить противников, победить любой ценой, самое удивительное, разрушительный потенциал,вызывать образы, патологический, благотворный эффект, быстро накапливаться, снежный ком, полный распад, хаос, тесно связанный, рассовые войны, лояльность, социальная интеграция, натравливать группы, великая миссия, военные действия.

        1. Answer the following questions on the text:

1. What are the useful functions of conflict?

2. Why are rivalries within the group submerged when the group is in conflict with another one?

3. Speak about conflict as a primary mechanism through which nations have developed.

4. What is August Comte’s view of the role of war in consolidating societies?

5. What are the most important negative effects of conflict?

6. How do you understand the phrase “the snowballing tendency” in the development of conflict?

7. What does the term “costly” mean when applied to conflict?

8. How do you understand the statement “conflict is inherently divisive”? Provide some examples.

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