An Interdisciplinary Framework to Assess the Radicalization of Youth Towards Violent Extremism Across Cultures
Year: 2012
Type: dissertation
Abstract: ABSTRACT! The search to understand contemporary terrorism has led researchers to increasingly focus their attention on the radicalization process as a means to gain insight into how individuals become susceptible to recruitment by terrorist organizations. There has been an unending search to identify a set of universal principles that would define the essential nature of radicalization and thereby provide insight into the psychology of individuals who constitute the pool of potential terrorist recruitment candidates. This effort has been primarily carried out by Western scholars theorizing about radicalization from a narrow Western causal-based reductionist perspective. Unfortunately, the product of these efforts has often been characterized as ambiguous and contradictory.! The intent of this study is to provide an alternative perspective to examine the radicalization process that rejects the causal paradigm in favor of a discursive approach that focuses on understanding psychological phenomena as revealed in discourse. To this end, this study offers an interdisciplinary framework using discursive psychology as a mode of explanation to better understand how radicalization may occur at the individual level in various
Author: William Anthony Costanza
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W91032178