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Structural violence helps explain the multiple and often intersecting forces that create and perpetuate inequality on multiple levels, both for individuals and communities. Structural violence also highlights the historical roots of modern inequality.
The term ‘structural violence’, introduced by sociologist Johan Galtung in 1969, helps to explain why there are a disproportionate number of deaths, illnesses and injuries for some people compared to others.
Structural violence refers to a form of violence wherein social structures or social institutions harm people by preventing them from meeting their basic needs. Although less visible, it is greater in scope and in implication than another type of violence and might include health, economic, gender, and racial disparities.
Social workers help combat structural violence by providing access to necessary services and resources among populations with limited access. While the factors that contribute to structural violence are complex and systemic, a skilled social worker can improve the lives of people within a disenfranchised community.
This analysis contributes to conceptual clarity and mutual understanding of the usage, application and significance of structural violence across health disciplines and provides a strong foundation for continued concept development and operationalization.
What do the concepts of “culture” and “structural violence” add to our understanding of these differences? Why does it matter how we explain difference? In other words, how can our choice of the terms “culture” or “structural violence” carry real-world consequences?
When considering health and questions of who does or does not become unwell, and how people with health conditions live their lives, structural violence is a useful and direct concept. It brings the fact that individuals are being harmed squarely into focus.
This viewpoint aims to discuss this issue using examples from empirical studies to elucidate how structural violence (perpetrated through institutions) contributes to revictimization among people who are already suffering direct violence.
Structural violence refers to systematic ways in which social structures harm or otherwise disadvantage individuals. Structural violence is subtle, often invisible, and often has no one specific person who can (or will) be held responsible (in contrast to behavioral violence).
Examples of structural violence include health, economic, gender, and racial disparities. Derivative forms include cultural, political, symbolic, and everyday violence. Structural violence is also the most potent stimulant of behavioral violence in the form of homicides, suicides, mass murders, and war. It is therefore one of the most critical ...