Radicalized Person

A Radicalized Person is a person who has adopted increasingly extreme counter-social aspirations.

• AKA: Radicalisation.
• Context:
  • They can be analyzed as having gone through a Radicalization Process.
  • They can range from (typically) being a Radicalized Young Person to being a Radicalized Older Person.
• Example(s):
  • Patti Hearst.
  • Anders Breivik, Dylann Storm Roof, Adam Lanza, James Holmes, Jared Loughner, Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold.
  • Muhammad Atta,
  • Micah Xavier Johnson, Gavin Long, ...
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Well-Adjusted Person.
• See: Terrorist, Fundamentalist, Counter-Culture.

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References

2016

• (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/radicalization Retrieved:2016-9-23.
  • Radicalization (or radicalisation) is a process by which an individual or group comes to adopt increasingly extreme political, social, or religious ideals and aspirations that reject or undermine the status quo or undermine contemporary ideas and expressions of freedom of choice. The outcomes of radicalization are shaped by the ideas of the society at large; for example, radicalism can originate from a broad social consensus against progressive changes in society or from a broad desire for change in society. Radicalization can be both violent and nonviolent, although most academic literature focuses on radicalization into violent extremism (RVE). There are multiple pathways that constitute the process of radicalization, which can be independent but are usually mutually reinforcing. Radicalization that occurs across multiple reinforcing pathways greatly increases a group’s resilience and lethality. Furthermore, by compromising its ability to blend in with non-radical society and participate in a modern, globalized economy, radicalization serves as a kind of sociological trap that gives individuals no other place to go to satisfy their material and spiritual needs.

2014

• (Kruglanski et al., 2014) ⇒ Arie W. Kruglanski, Michele J. Gelfand, Jocelyn J. Bélanger, Anna Sheveland, Malkanthi Hetiarachchi, and Rohan Gunaratna. (2014). “The Psychology of Radicalization and Deradicalization: How Significance Quest Impacts Violent Extremism." Political Psychology 35, no. S1

2008

• (McCauley & Moskalenko, 2008) ⇒ Clark McCauley, and Sophia Moskalenko. (2008). “Mechanisms of Political Radicalization: Pathways Toward Terrorism." Terrorism and political violence 20, no. 3
  • ABSTRACT: This article conceptualizes political radicalization as a dimension of increasing extremity of beliefs, feelings, and behaviors in support of intergroup conflict and violence. Across individuals, groups, and mass publics, twelve mechanisms of radicalization are distinguished. For ten of these mechanisms, radicalization occurs in a context of group identification and reaction to perceived threat to the ingroup. The variety and strength of reactive mechanisms point to the need to understand radicalization — including the extremes of terrorism — as emerging more from the dynamics of intergroup conflict than from the vicissitudes of individual psychology.

2000

• (Smith, 2000) ⇒ Neil Smith. (2000). “Socializing Culture, Radicalizing the Social." Social & Cultural Geography 1, no. 1

1984

• (Haines, 1984) ⇒ Herbert H. Haines. (1984). “Black Radicalization and the Funding of Civil Rights: 1957-1970." Social Problems 32, no. 1

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