How are terrorist groups classified?
What will be an ideal response?
Compare and contrast Quest for Significance and Terror Management Theory.
Both are relatively new theories for explaining why people join terrorist groups.
Both are focused on psychological explanations and can apply to people of different backgrounds, faiths, cultural upbringing. The quest for significance is the more widely studied and supported; terror management still new and less well defined. Quest for significance suggests that the person lacks meaning in his/her life and wants to participate in an important cause. The person is driven by need to become significant and is prompted by having had significant loss, or the threat of significant loss, or the opportunity to significant gain (e.g., self-esteem; belonging to a group). These terrorists are often socially isolated in present life; wants association with others. Terror management theory assumes the individual has high anxiety of eventual death. The person is driven by fear and a need to deal with inevitable death. The fear or terror is managed if one associates with group that promises a form of immortality.
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What will be an ideal response?