SOC Terrorism Terms

Globalization

The collapse of time and space

Personalization

we come to experience the virtual as a personal experience, catfishing and the problem of accountability

decontextualization

information come to be divorced from not only the person who produced it, but also the context, namely the time space within which it was produced

Diminution of state/social control: official gatekeepers began to lose control of information dissemination

State

The institution with the legitimate use of violence through the military and police. Terrorism and cyber warfare became new spaces to contest the state's legitimacy

The majority

The social group that systematically accumulates more of the resources considered valuable by that society and that attains more power as a consequence

Justification of violence

Violence perpetrated by the white majority is considered as aberrant, deviant, or due to mental illness. So the problem is personalized by downplaying the collective behavior of the majority. For nonwhite minorities, even when the violence may be person based, the media represents it as the collective behavior of minorities

Terrorism

The unlawful use of violence, fear, or intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims

Terrorists

Disaffected groups, we cannot know with certainty who terrorists are because they are seemingly ordinary citizens

Intersectionality

the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.

Domestic Terrorism

Implication of instability within a state and a usurpation of the state's monopoly of violence

International Terrorism

Terrorism that is carried out by people in a country other than their own; also known as cross-border terrorism.

Lone wolf terrorism

Ideologically driven violence (or attempted violence), perpetrated by an individual who plans and executes an attack in the absence of collaboration

Ideology

The target is intentionally picked to make an ideological statement

Counterrorism

The inclusion of threat in the definition of terrorism allows the threat of terrorism to be actionable by the government, and this is rare for terrorism; we do not take such action for any other crime