Understanding Terrorism
Building on the Sociological Imagination
Published on 3. December 2015
210 pages
978-1-317-24984-9 (ISBN)
Description
Two fundamental problems within the social sciences are the failure to integrate the existing segments of knowledge and a very limited ability to point out directions for solving social problems, given that lack of integrated knowledge.This volume illustrates the integrated work of seven sociologists to reverse this situation not only for the problem of terrorism but also for any substantive or applied problem. C. Wright Mills in The Sociological Imagination castigated the failure to integrate social science knowledge, and this volume carries forward his efforts to analyze human complexity.To understand and confront terrorism we require not only the integration of social science knowledge bearing on that problem, as illustrated by these authors. We also require the integration of that knowledge with the understanding of those on the front lines in order to connect the dots of specialized basic and applied knowledge, which this volume makes possible.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
illustrations
File size
3,87 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-317-24984-9 (9781317249849)
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Book
06/2008
1st Edition
Routledge
€110.70
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04/2007
1st Edition
Routledge
€312.60
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Person
Bernard Phillips
Content
Part I Introduction; Chapter 1 The Web and Part/Whole Approach to Terrorism, Bernard Phillips; Part II Understanding Terrorism; Chapter 2 Terrorist Organizations and Agency: A Comparative-Historical Approach, J. I. (Hans) Bakker; Chapter 3 Terrorism as an "Ism": Toward an Interactive versus a Stratified Metaphysics, Bernard Phillips; Chapter 4 Assessing the Fallout of the Terrorist Moment: Anomie and the Fractured American Weltanschauung, Adam Rafalovich; Chapter 5 Runaway Nationalism: Alienation, Shame, and Anger, Thomas J. Scheff; Chapter 6 The Social Psychology of Terrorism, Jonathan H. Turner; Chapter 7 The Post-September 11 Rhetorical Constructions of Terrorism: Applying the Web and Part/Whole Approach to Make Sense of the "Senseless", Todd Powell-Williams; Part III Connecting the Dots; Chapter 8 On the Relationship of the Web Approach to Some Theoretical Perspectives, Segre Sandro; Chapter 9 Conclusions and Recommendations, Bernard Phillips;
