A Social Identity and Social Power Perspective on Terrorism
This article presents a theoretical framework for understanding terrorism that is grounded in experimental work on social identity and social power. It is suggested that social identity salience and social power may be harnessed to reduce terrorist activity by reducing perceptions of threat from the...
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doaj-6cac6be0445e4cc2accfdc39deeaba392020-11-24T21:06:33ZengUniversity of St AndrewsJournal of Terrorism Research2049-70402015-09-0163768310.15664/jtr.1184901A Social Identity and Social Power Perspective on TerrorismJoshua David Wright0University of Western Ontario and Western Centre for Research on Migration and Ethnic RelationsThis article presents a theoretical framework for understanding terrorism that is grounded in experimental work on social identity and social power. It is suggested that social identity salience and social power may be harnessed to reduce terrorist activity by reducing perceptions of threat from the view of terrorist organizations, by reducing perceived threat of terrorist activity from the view of potential targets, and by addressing distributions of and susceptibility to social power as it relates to acceptability of parochial altruism.http://jtr.st-andrews.ac.uk/articles/1184social identitysocial powerterrorismcounter-terrorismreligious terrorismparochial altruism |
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A Social Identity and Social Power Perspective on Terrorism |
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A Social Identity and Social Power Perspective on Terrorism |
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A Social Identity and Social Power Perspective on Terrorism |
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A Social Identity and Social Power Perspective on Terrorism |
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social identity and social power perspective on terrorism |
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University of St Andrews |
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Journal of Terrorism Research |
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This article presents a theoretical framework for understanding terrorism that is grounded in experimental work on social identity and social power. It is suggested that social identity salience and social power may be harnessed to reduce terrorist activity by reducing perceptions of threat from the view of terrorist organizations, by reducing perceived threat of terrorist activity from the view of potential targets, and by addressing distributions of and susceptibility to social power as it relates to acceptability of parochial altruism. |
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social identity social power terrorism counter-terrorism religious terrorism parochial altruism |
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