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Citation

Mackert J. Rev. Synth. 2014; 135(4): 331-359.

Vernacular Title

La société secrète et les dynamiques sociales de l'action terroriste Die Geheime Gesellschaft und die sozialen Dynamiken terroristischen Handelns.

Affiliation

Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Soziologie, Universität Potsdam, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, August-Bebel-Straße 89, D-14482, Potsdam, Deutschland, juergen.mackert@uni-potsdam.de.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s11873-014-0261-z

PMID

25600017

Abstract

The article argues that individualist accounts cannot adequately explain the social dynamics of terrorist behavior as they turn analyses of terrorism into analyses of terrorists. A relational approach that concentrates on the social relations between terrorist organizations and their members would be able to do this, however. Therefore, the article presents a formal analysis that makes the "secret society" of terrorists the lynchpin of an explanation of how terrorist organizations shape the behavioral conditions of volunteers and suicide terrorists in a manner that triggers a type of behavior we might call terrorism.


Language: en

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