SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Arab Spring, Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport, Virtual Community

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2070
• Professor: Patrick Parnaby

Document Summary

Protesting oil pipelines could be defined as terrorism. Common thread? threat or use of violence to intimidate to influence the public (or government) for political/religious/ideological reasons (phillips 2015) Are terrorism and war not the same? terrorism involves strategic and deliberate use of violence against civilians isn"t terrorism just another form of crime? the intent is different than regular crime. Pragmatic implications need shared definitions to talk about a phenomenon, shared frame of reference. Scientific implications need good definition is we are going to be able to conduct good research, what do you include and not include in analysis. ; the terrorist labels leads to specific forms of social control. Terrorist objectives roughly 5 different objectives (tosini 2007) Nationalism terrorists engage in terrorist activity to establish liberation of territory or independence (e. g. , lebanese hezbollah, or palestine hamas vis a vis israel, or al-qaeda struggle to rid muslim land of us and western influence)