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A 5 page investigation of the social causes of terrorism. This paper investigates terrorism from a group fractionation standpoint. The author outlines Marx’s theory of conflict in comparison with the structural functionalist approach first founded by Radcliff-Brown and Evans-Pritchard and Max Weber’s multidimensional model of societal stratification. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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of our modern world. From acts of terrorism against international business interest, to misguided efforts to protect our environmental resources, to the atrocious destruction of the World Trade Center
and the subsequent attack on the Pentagon, terrorism has come to be a far too common component of our everyday awareness. It is a phenomena which is deeply rooted
in many aspects of human behavior. One particularly interesting approach to understanding terrorism is in its relation to Marxs "conflict theory". World
society as a whole can be viewed from a Marxist perspective. What we have confronting us in regard to terrorism, however, is particularly interesting from this perspective. The
patterns of poverty and inequality which exist in world society have resulted in deep social stratification. Marxs conflict theory envisions a society in which individual and group strife exists in
response tot he need to obtain valued resources such as property and power. Even the quest for prestige can be reflected in this theory. The obvious correlation is
the fact that human groups inevitably develop prejudices towards other groups in that they are competitors for what few resources exist. In
their work delineating the importance of group identification in negotiating international agreements, Rao and Schmidt (1998) note that psychological groups are formed on the basis of obvious characteristics such as
race. With bureaucratic inertia this formation becomes even more detrimental. Interaction with other groups is not even a prerequisite for such categorization (Rao and Schmidt, 1998). Typically
our cultures are divided into two distinctive categorizations separating those that are from our own cultural and ethnic background and those that are not (Little, Sterling, and Tingstrom, 1996).
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