SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Second Intifada, First Intifada, Robert Pape
5 Jan 2020
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Brym looks at suicide from a sociological approach: step back look at the data interpret. Possible explanations for the rise in suicide bombing since the 1980"s: Focus on the interaction between the two. Deranged unstable individuals with a death wish . Relative: growth of an intolerable gap between expectation and what they receive. Since 1990s: suicide attacks seen as fundamentally rational strategy organized group"s campaign to achieve a political goal: removal of occupiers. Robert pape (2005): strategic rationality is evident in the objectives, timing and results of suicide bombing campaigns. Brym challenge"s pape"s oversimplification of bombing explained as strategic logic": objectives i. e only to liberate territory, timing i. e often timed to maximize impact, results i. e often met with success. Brym: examines key period of suicide bombing: second intifada (2000 2005) Brym research: suicide bombings and the second intifada: causal mechanisms: bomber"s motives, org rationales, precipitants (lead up, great majority of suicide attacks were reactive (provoked)
