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A 15 page paper examining terrorism from the sociological perspective, including examination of the five theories of terrorism and attempts to profile individual terrorists and groups of terrorists, both before and after September 11, 2001. The bottom line at present is that there is much anecdotal information available on terrorist groups and individual terrorists, and sociologists believe that there is a pattern there to overcome. What that pattern may be still remains elusive, however, in that the “easy” answers of poverty, oppression and lack of education or opportunity seem not to be related at all. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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past, sociology was viewed by many in much the same way that practitioners of "hard science" viewed approaches to research. Quantitative research was "real" and valuable, qualitative research -
that seeks to assess individuals thoughts, attitudes and perceptions - was not. Today, practitioners of hard science such as medicine increasingly are acknowledging the influences of things that cannot
easily be measured on the process of healing, and increasingly are turning to qualitative methods to help to explain these factors. Much of
this recognition has extended to sociology as well. Though sociologists have been aware of the value of sociology all along, others have not. Now, when inexplicable events occur,
increasingly it is to sociologists that people turn for answers, or at least possibilities. "The purpose of this study is to identify and discuss the sociological characteristics of terrorists
and whether they share any common sociological attributes that may be useful to profile the terrorist organization." Terrorism Defined Terrorism is defined as
"an organized system of intimidation" (Karim, 2002, p. 425) and as "the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion" (Karim, 2002, p. 425). The word terror comes
from Middle English and means "to frighten, to cause one to tremble or be afraid, or to flee; or to arouse a state of intense fear" (Karim, 2002, p. 425).
Terrorism is not a new phenomenon, it has existed since history was first recorded (OConnor, 2004). Acts of terrorism can be found in
the Bible and they are recorded in Roman history with the killing of kings, the Zealots of Israel, 12th century assassins in Iraq, the 14th century Thuggees in India, the
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