1st Edition
Understanding Terrorism Building on the Sociological Imagination
By Bernard S Phillips
Copyright 2007
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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, Segré Sandro; Chapter 9 Conclusions and Recommendations, Bernard Phillips;
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Bernard Phillips
