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Leaving Ideological Social Groups Behind: A Grounded Theory Of Psychological Disengagement, Kira J. Harris
Leaving Ideological Social Groups Behind: A Grounded Theory Of Psychological Disengagement, Kira J. Harris
Kira J Harris
Much of the current disengagement literature focuses on the causes of an individual leaving a radical social group with the intention of countering fundamentalism and violent extremism. However, the link between the cause and the decision to disengage is unclear as one cause may facilitate disengagement for one member and not another. Minimal empirical research exists on the individual’s psychological experience of disengagement and the studies that have been done tend to focus on sole ideologies or group types. What is lacking in the field of disengagement is a broader understanding of the core psychological experience across a broad range …
The Role Of Social Groups In Radicalisation, Kira J. Harris, Eyal Gringart, Deirdre Drake
The Role Of Social Groups In Radicalisation, Kira J. Harris, Eyal Gringart, Deirdre Drake
Kira J Harris
The inability to form psychological profiles of individual members across a variety of extremist groups, as well as the recognition in extremism and terrorism research indicates that no adequate personality profile exists. This requires an analysis of other factors that influence the radicalisation process. By drawing on social identity theory, this paper offers a psycho-social explanation for how people define themselves in relation to their social group, as well as how the intra-group relationships can lead to extreme behaviour and resistance to counter efforts. These groups promote a salient social identity that becomes intrinsic to the self to the extent …
The Brotherhood Of Bikers, Kira J. Harris