Gambetta, Diego and Hertog, Steffen (2009) Why are there so many engineers among Islamic radicals? European journal of sociology, 50 (2). pp. 201-230. ISSN 0003-9756
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Abstract
This article demonstrates that among violent Islamists engineers with a degree, individuals with an engineering education are three to four times more frequent than we would expect given the share of engineers among university students in Islamic countries.We then test a number of hypotheses to account for this phenomenon.We argue that a combination of two factors – engineers’ relative deprivation in the Islamic world and mindset – is the most plausible explanation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJourna... |
| Additional Information: | © 2009 Cambridge University Press |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Jihad, islamism, engineers, political violence, education, relative deprivation |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
| Sets: | Departments > Government Research centres and groups > Middle East Centre |
| Rights: | http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/rights/LSERO.htm |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/29836/ |
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