Terrorism and its Effects on Social Institutions and the Society in General

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Terrorism and its Effects on Social Institutions and the Society in General
Introduction
Many organizations and individuals use the terrorist violence to attain their political goals. The empirical study has shown that many of these attacks of terrorisms are done on as part of coordinated campaigns. The terrorism tactics are diverse and they include the plane hijacking, bombing of the cars and the buildings and the individual’s assassinations. The two examples of the terrorist attacks which will be compared and contrasted include the bombing and the aircraft attacks or hijacking. The bombing involves the use of the chemicals to make the explosives. The explosives are highly dangerous and the attackers use the bomb plant them in cars, roadsides or the use of the individuals for the suicide attack. The hijackings are also a terrorism tactic the American airlines have been hijacked and crashed. Since these terrorist attacks have affected the US economy and caused major shifts in the government action it is better to look at this issue. This paper involves the research of the bombing attacks and the hijacking attacks on the airlines and the consequences of this terrorist attack. The use of the interviews, observation and the use of questionnaires will be used to collect the data. SPSS software will be used for data analysis.
Terrorism is usually the use of violence to create fear. It is also unlawful act of violence and war. Terrorism is a politically stimulated tactic that the terrorist uses to threaten the people and use the force, or violence to cause the terror. In sociological terrorism has been viewed to make the cases that involve the groups and not the individual. In the sociological perspective terrorismhas been defined as the human being eagerness to use brutality to influence the politics.
Many theories have been used to explain what motivates the terrorists and their explanations are found in the psychological, and sociological explanations. The groups of terrorist the Al-Qaeda caused the 9/11 attacks. Five theories of terrorism have been identified by the sociologists. They involve frustration violence, relative deprivation, negative characteristics, narcissistic anger and the moral disengagement. Much violence are done due to moral disengagement where the ones committing the attacks lack the moral values that they are committing horrific violence. Also the narcissistic anger due to the revenge the attackers want to undertake and also the frustration aggression whereby the attackers are angered by the government’s policies.
Bombing
Bombings mostly are the widespread kinds of terrorist act. The terrorists use the likely devices to explode buildings, cars, aeroplanes etc. The devices they use are inexpensive and easy for them to formulate. The modern devices which they use are minor and are tough to detect. They hold very unhelpful capabilities; e.g. on...