SOC 2070 Lecture 12: 2070nov21
10 Mar 2017
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You can be labeled as a terrorist if you are protesting. Threat or use of violence to intimidate or influence the public (or government) for political/religious/ideological reasons (philips 2015) Terrorism involves strategic and deliberate violence against civilians. The intent is different than regular crime. The desire to humiliate and hurt large populations. What phenomena to include or exclude from an analysis. > the terrorist label leads to specific forms of social control. Al-qaeda struggle to rid muslim land of us and western influence roughly 5 different objectives (tosini 2007) Nationalism: group struggling for liberation of territory or independence. Revolution: bring about radical change in pre-existing regime. Vigilantism: defend an established order through violence. Ulster and loyalist volunteer forces (opposed to catholic. Symbolic: win (cid:498)cosmic(cid:499) war between forces of good and evil. Single-issue terrorism: campaigns for specific, limited purposes. Ex. anti-abortion groups, animal liberation front, earth liberation. Use of violence to intimidate people to focus on issue.
