Bernard S Phillips

Understanding Terrorism

Building on the Sociological Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781594513732
• ISBN-10: 1594513732
• Artikelnr.: 21377864

Autorenporträt

Bernard Phillips

Inhaltsangabe

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;