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Understanding Terrorism: Building on the Sociological Imagination

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    9781594513732

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  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-04-15
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. vii
Introductionp. 1
The Web and Part/Whole Approach to Terrorismp. 8
Understanding Terrorismp. 35
Terrorist Organizations and Agency: A Comparative-Historical Approachp. 37
Terrorism as an "Ism": Toward an Interactive versus a Stratified Metaphysicsp. 61
Assessing the Fallout of the Terrorist Moment: Anomie and the Fractured American Weltanschauungp. 73
Runaway Nationalism: Alienation, Shame, and Angerp. 93
The Social Psychology of Terrorismp. 115
The Post-September 11 Rhetorical Constructions of Terrorism: Applying the Web and Part/Whole Approach to Make Sense of the "Senseless,"p. 146
Connecting the Dotsp. 175
On the Relationship of the Web Approach to Some Theoretical Perspectivesp. 177
Response to Segre's Analysisp. 187
Conclusions and Recommendationsp. 190
About the Editorp. 210
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