POLS 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cultural Globalization, Symbolic Power

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Fear monger, based on a form of ideology. Terrorism is poliical violence that usually spreads fear beyond those atacked, as others recognize themselves as potenial targets. Criique: findings conirm that this is not always the case. Violent reacion to the changes associated with economic and cultural globalizaion. Criique: assumes that cultures are homogenous, but this overlooks diversity and diferences within cultures. Terrorism is a reacion to inequality of global economy. Criiques: personal wealth, educaion and social background of many members of terrorist organizaions. Global jihad is a reacion to the perceived oppression of muslims or the failure of muslims state to abide by islamic principles. Religiously moivated terrorism is a more extreme form of terrorism, because it is based on people spiritual beliefs. Psychological, cultural, economic, and religious explanaions provide necessary but not suicient explanaions for global terrorism. Terrorism is a method of violence, oten randomly employed, that is uilized to achieve poliical objecives.

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