Of “corrective” to “aguante”. The uses of violence between police and "hooligans".

Abstract

In these pages we will discuss how violence is used comparing two ethnographic research, one between the members of what is commonly called hooligans and the other between members of the Buenos Aires police. We hold that the actions violets are resources that actors use as a form of group aggregation and as a builder of social ties. Violence is conventionally interpreted as an action depreciated and therefore is invisivilizada, hidden or overshadowed. However, it is effective to define a sense of belonging and obtain forms of group distinction tool. We, then, in comparison, to violence as a currency of honor and prestige. We end by asking what kind of action is violence and illuminating response comparing different uses that exhibit the cases analyzed.