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This 3 page paper explains how Michel Wieviorka defines terrorism, and what sociological theory he is using to examine it. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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attempts to answer these questions and bring some answers to a puzzled and fearful world. Discussion In order to understand this issue, Wieviorka observed actual terrorist movement participants in various
countries, from the left-wing in Italy to the Basque nationalists to "the international terrorism of Palestine and the Middle East" (The making of terrorism, 2007). Because Wieviorka has actually observed
the terrorists, he avoids the trap of making the book either a diatribe against them or a chronicle of despair. Instead, he gives readers "an incisive analysis of what terrorists
believe and what they hope to achieve through their actions" (The making of terrorism, 2007). Wieviorka defines terrorism as a "social antimovement" (Wieviorka, 2004, p. 5). Wieviorka reminds us that
at the beginning of what could become a terrorist movement, there are points at which ordinary people feel some sympathy with the goals the group is expressing (Wieviorka, 2004). "Then,
sooner or later, these more-or-less benevolent feelings sour as terrorist violence becomes increasingly lethal and indiscriminate" (Wieviorka, 2004, p. 3). Terrorist activities soon become so extreme that the movement is
"heavily weighed down with a separatist baggage that cuts off all communication between the meanings it claims for itself and the meaninglessness that others impute to it" (Wieviorka, 2004, p.
4). It becomes, in essence, the opposite of what its adherents want it to be-it becomes a social antimovement. In order to examine terrorism more deeply, Wieviorka uses sociological theories
he calls the "principle of identity," the "principle of opposition," and the "principle of totality" (Wieviorka, 2004, p. 5). When these principles are applied to a social movement, they give
a clear picture of its structure, but terrorism inverts them and applies them in a way that can only be considered inappropriate. The principle of identity, which in normal usage
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