SOC212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Volksgemeinschaft, Poverty Threshold, Relative Deprivation
Document Summary
Thesis: con ict theory can be boiled down as a paradigm that sees social con ict as the underlying causes of crime. Outline: crime as a result of social con ict, case study: terrorism - suicide bombings and 9/11, crime as a result of laws that are fuelled bu con ict, case study. Explanations of terrorism: they are crazy, they are deprived, relative deprivation - intolerable gap between what people except out of life and what they. They must be abnormal pr defanged - media. Unstable individuals with a death wish - psychologists absolute deprivation - long standing poverty get: clash of civilizations thesis. Islamic culture" leads to a collective" hatred towards the west. Terrorists activities are strategically rational political actions aimed at coercing a foreign state to remove its military forces from territory that the group members view to be their homeland.
