Explain how Robert White explains violence in Northern Ireland as a group process
What will be an ideal response?
• Socially constructed meanings evolved in three ways: (1) small-group interpretation within the IRA, (2) general interpretation of activities by the Catholic population, and (3) meanings assigned from the interaction between the small and large groups.
• IRA operatives were recruited by different patterns, and each recruiting style affected tactics, such as bombings, shootings, or hunger strikes.
• When the people of Northern Ireland, at least the Catholic minority, felt repressed by the British, it legitimized IRA violence.
• The IRA could not move without popular support.
• Additionally, popular support came when peaceful actions appeared to produce no results.
• Finally, as the IRA in the republic and in Ulster grew closer together, they also identified with the Republicans of Ulster.
• The British were, and remain, outsiders to Republicans.
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