Radicalization

The concept of family in most rural societies is typically that of being very traditional and very conservative. Rural life in late imperial China was no exception. Combining the traditional elements of familial piety with the teachings of Confucianism, rural life in late imperial China was simple and yet ever so complex. In order to maintain control of both public and private life, society in late imperial China sought to incorporate Confucian ethics into state laws. The roles of each…

What initially seemed to be a regular police raid on a random June night in 1969 turned into riots lasting several evenings, with an impact that would continue to this day. Often people divide the history of the United States’ gay rights movement into two epochs- “before Stonewall” and “after Stonewall”. Accordingly, this distinction illustrates the Stonewall Riots’ individual importance for gay rights even as it was not the first event to highlight the injustices of homophobia. Despite its…

motivation behind the terrorist’s actions is taken away and therefore becomes unnecessary. Although these two frameworks are the main approaches to terrorism, there are still several others including religious processes, classic criminology, and radicalization. For instance, besides being a social process, terrorism is also a religious process. In the past, social scientists such as Karl Marx, believed that modernization would lead to the decline of religious identities. Ironically, religion has…

general populations. These motivations include the convenience of using the persecuted group as scapegoats and advancing the idea and acceptance of the “stab-in-the-back” myth, establishing racialized narrative of superiority among groups, the radicalization of nationalism in government caused by any number of issues such as perceived economic disparity to power imbalances, and lastly the diffusion of responsibility. Scapegoats & The Stab-in-the-Back Myth After the embarrassing loss of World…

Eventually, this scenario led to a government system majorly dominated by the ruling party led by Chavez. This led to the radicalization of the political system in Venezuela majorly controlled by the political and economic elites which further led to the massive plundering of the country’s funds and resources. This era’s political shortcomings were as a result of Chavez’s unwillingness…

There are many factors that come in to play when trying to establish the psychological and behavioral factors to terrorism. To summarize a few of these factors within al Qaeda's leadership and affiliate groups are the feelings of victimization or alienation. They believe that acts of moral violations by any of their adversaries will constitute the violence they shed in search of a higher ethical order. "Another foundational component is the idea that the terrorist’s ethnic, religious, or…

Concerning domestic policy it is imperative that this new administration addresses gun control. In 2016 alone there have been 449 mass shootings. It is the role of President-Elect Trump to ensure that people feel safe in public places, because with the alarming rate of gun violence in this country, it is becoming harder and harder to feel that way. In order to prevent this, the government should enact legislation that makes a person on the no-fly list, like the Orlando shoot, unable to obtain a…

The Correlation Between Islamophobia and Muslim Inmates In the years following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, there was a rapid increase in what has become known as islamophobia: a prejudice towards the nation of Islam and intolerance towards Muslims in general. In recent years, researchers have provided evidence that there has been a decline in islamophobia, which national Islamic civil rights groups’ claim is “small, but highly welcome” (Replogle, 2013)…

The idea of a scapegoat prevails throughout history. From the Jews throughout the Middle Ages in Europe, to the Blacks during the early 20th century in the United States, minorities groups have beared the burden of discrimination and marginalization in all societies around the world. The majority peoples of societies dehumanized these minority peoples, and, thus, allowed themselves to blame these groups for the many problems they faced that were either unsolvable or were very difficult to solve.…

1 - How is anti-Semitism both an old and new thing? The whole anti-Semitism could be dated back to Medieval Christianity, based on the story of the Bible, by betraying Jesus Jews were given an image of unmoral and disloyal. Leading them to became scapegoated and persecuted by many Christian regime and populations. Through out European history, the image of Jews have been demonised and dehumanise, even though it is misleading and untrue. After the rise of modernity and nation-state,…