Engineers of Jihad: The Curious Connection between Violent Extremism and Education
The violent actions of a few extremists can alter the course of history, yet there persists a yawning gap between the potential impact of these individuals and what we understand about them. In Engineers of Jihad, Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog uncover two unexpected facts, which they imaginative...
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| Zusammenfassung: | The violent actions of a few extremists can alter the course of history, yet there persists a yawning gap between the potential impact of these individuals and what we understand about them. In Engineers of Jihad, Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog uncover two unexpected facts, which they imaginatively leverage to narrow that gap: they find that a disproportionate share of Islamist radicals come from an engineering background, and that Islamist and right-wing extremism have more in common than either does with left-wing extremism, in which engineers are absent while social scientists and humanities students are prominent. Searching for an explanation, they tackle four general questions about extremism: Under which socioeconomic conditions do people join extremist groups? Does the profile of extremists reflect how they self-select into extremism or how groups recruit them? Does ideology matter in sorting who joins which group? Lastly, is there a mindset susceptible to certain types of extremism? Using rigorous methods and several new datasets, they explain the link between educational discipline and type of radicalism by looking at two key factors: the social mobility (or lack thereof) for engineers in the Muslim world, and a particular mindset seeking order and hierarchy that is found more frequently among engineers. Engineers' presence in some extremist groups and not others, the authors argue, is a proxy for individual traits that may account for the much larger question of selective recruitment to radical activism. Opening up markedly new perspectives on the motivations of political violence, Engineers of Jihad yields unexpected answers about the nature and emergence of extremism |
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| spelling | Gambetta, Diego Verfasser aut Engineers of Jihad The Curious Connection between Violent Extremism and Education Steffen Hertog, Diego Gambetta Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press [2016] © 2016 1 online resource txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019) The violent actions of a few extremists can alter the course of history, yet there persists a yawning gap between the potential impact of these individuals and what we understand about them. In Engineers of Jihad, Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog uncover two unexpected facts, which they imaginatively leverage to narrow that gap: they find that a disproportionate share of Islamist radicals come from an engineering background, and that Islamist and right-wing extremism have more in common than either does with left-wing extremism, in which engineers are absent while social scientists and humanities students are prominent. Searching for an explanation, they tackle four general questions about extremism: Under which socioeconomic conditions do people join extremist groups? Does the profile of extremists reflect how they self-select into extremism or how groups recruit them? Does ideology matter in sorting who joins which group? Lastly, is there a mindset susceptible to certain types of extremism? Using rigorous methods and several new datasets, they explain the link between educational discipline and type of radicalism by looking at two key factors: the social mobility (or lack thereof) for engineers in the Muslim world, and a particular mindset seeking order and hierarchy that is found more frequently among engineers. Engineers' presence in some extremist groups and not others, the authors argue, is a proxy for individual traits that may account for the much larger question of selective recruitment to radical activism. Opening up markedly new perspectives on the motivations of political violence, Engineers of Jihad yields unexpected answers about the nature and emergence of extremism In English POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism bisacsh Engineering students Political activity Islamic countries Extremists Education Islamic countries Jihad Radicalism Islamic countries Terrorism Religious aspects Islam Terrorists Education Islamic countries Violence Religious aspects Islam Berufsbildung (DE-588)4069342-9 gnd rswk-swf Bildung (DE-588)4006650-2 gnd rswk-swf Islam (DE-588)4027743-4 gnd rswk-swf Fundamentalismus (DE-588)4137178-1 gnd rswk-swf Terrorismus (DE-588)4059534-1 gnd rswk-swf Islamische Staaten (DE-588)4073172-8 gnd rswk-swf Islamische Staaten (DE-588)4073172-8 g Islam (DE-588)4027743-4 s Fundamentalismus (DE-588)4137178-1 s Terrorismus (DE-588)4059534-1 s Bildung (DE-588)4006650-2 s 1\p DE-604 Berufsbildung (DE-588)4069342-9 s 2\p DE-604 Hertog, Steffen aut https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400880256 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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| title | Engineers of Jihad The Curious Connection between Violent Extremism and Education |
| title_auth | Engineers of Jihad The Curious Connection between Violent Extremism and Education |
| title_exact_search | Engineers of Jihad The Curious Connection between Violent Extremism and Education |
| title_full | Engineers of Jihad The Curious Connection between Violent Extremism and Education Steffen Hertog, Diego Gambetta |
| title_fullStr | Engineers of Jihad The Curious Connection between Violent Extremism and Education Steffen Hertog, Diego Gambetta |
| title_full_unstemmed | Engineers of Jihad The Curious Connection between Violent Extremism and Education Steffen Hertog, Diego Gambetta |
| title_short | Engineers of Jihad |
| title_sort | engineers of jihad the curious connection between violent extremism and education |
| title_sub | The Curious Connection between Violent Extremism and Education |
| topic | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism bisacsh Engineering students Political activity Islamic countries Extremists Education Islamic countries Jihad Radicalism Islamic countries Terrorism Religious aspects Islam Terrorists Education Islamic countries Violence Religious aspects Islam Berufsbildung (DE-588)4069342-9 gnd Bildung (DE-588)4006650-2 gnd Islam (DE-588)4027743-4 gnd Fundamentalismus (DE-588)4137178-1 gnd Terrorismus (DE-588)4059534-1 gnd |
| topic_facet | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism Engineering students Political activity Islamic countries Extremists Education Islamic countries Jihad Radicalism Islamic countries Terrorism Religious aspects Islam Terrorists Education Islamic countries Violence Religious aspects Islam Berufsbildung Bildung Islam Fundamentalismus Terrorismus Islamische Staaten |
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