NUTR 214 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Conservative Revolutionary Movement, Age Of Enlightenment
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Terrorism is a social construct terrorism is defined by different people within shifting social and political realities: social construct the way people view reality. Groups construct a framework around a concept, defining various aspects of their lives through the meanings they attribute to the construct. Schmid says most definitions of the term have two characteristics: someone is terrorized, the meaning of the term si derived from the terrorists" targets and victims. Terrorism (western perspective) grew from the french revolution: the word was originally used to describe the actions of a government, not of a band of revolutionaries. The meaning of terrorism changed in the 20th and 21st century. Terrorism began as government repression in france, but the term was transformed to refer to guerrilla tactics in the napoleonic wars: by the 19th century the word was used to describe the actions of revolutionaries. The american revolution: the war began in april 1775 when colonists clashed with british soldiers in lexington,
