175 Socialinis ugdymas / Socialinės inovacijos socialinių industrijų plėtrai / 2014, t. 39, Nr. 3 ISSN 1392-9569 E-ISSN 2351-6011 Socialinis ugdymas / Socialinės inovacijos socialinių industrijų plėtrai Social Education / Social Innovation for Social Industry Development 2014, t. 39, Nr. 3, p. 175–188 / Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 175–188, 2014 Social and Demographic Conditions of Displays of Aggression and Violence in Family Małgorzata Przybysz-Zaremba 1 , Agata Katkonienė 2 1 Department of Pedagogy Aleksander Gieysztor Academy of Humanities in Pułtusk (Poland), 36B Mickiewicza St., 06-100 Pułtusk, malgorzata.p_z@interia.pl 2 Institute of Educational Sciences and Social Work Faculty of Social Technologies Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania), Ateities St. 20, LT-08303 Vilnius, Lithuania, agata.katkoniene@mruni.eu Abstracts. Te purpose of the research was to discover some selected social and demographic factors which can infuence the displays of aggression and violence as well as the alcohol abuse. Several factors were taken into analysis: men’s age, their education, place of residence and the jobs which they perform. Te analysis of the research results confrmed that displaying aggression and / or violence is strictly related to abusing alcohol. Te research indicated that aggression and violence happen most frequently in families in which the men’s age is between 23 to 30; it happens with men with higher and secondary education who are regular alcohol drinkers; most ofen in the rural area. Keywords: aggression, violence, alcohol abuse, family. To introduce: aggression and violence in family – explication of terms Aggression and violence happening in family is not a new phenomenon in society. More and more frequently this phenomenon is becoming a part of everyday life, the one we have got accustomed to, the one we have learnt to live with. In the literature, the terms aggression and violence are treated ambiguously, thus they are difcult to defne properly. Te terms are related, describing the same mental states and behaviours, however, they do difer in terms of causes, results as well as the range of DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15823/su.2014.27