MEETING TERRORISTS
Rohan Gunaratna is the author of Inside Al Qae’da: Global Network of Terror.Ìý He has spent much of the last twenty years meeting and studying the world’s terrorists and believes that the only way to understand them is to meet face to face.
Rohan explains to Laurie Taylor how he goes about this research which has peculiar difficulties and self-evident dangers.
ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS – ROBERT KING MERTON
Laurie Taylor and Professor of pay tribute to Robert King Merton, one of the twentieth century’s great sociologists, who died last month.
Merton was a man whose ideas ranged widely across all manner of social problems.Ìý In so doing, he popularised phrases like ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’, inadvertently laid the foundation stones for today’s all-pervasive focus groups and theorised on the mass media’s potential development as a tool of propaganda.
Additional Information:
Inside Al Qae’da: Global Network of Terror
by Rohan Gunaratna
C. Hurst & Co - ISBN 185065672X
University of St Andrews
St Andrews
Fife KY16 9AL
The Centre in conjunction with Hurst academic publishers has launcheda series of monographs on terrorism and political violence. The second volume, Dr Gunaratna's study of terrorist international support networks is due to be published later on this year.
International Terrorist Support Networks: The Dynamics of Ethnonationalist Campaigns
CSTPV Series in Terrorism and Political Violence
C. Hurst & Co - ISBN 1850655979
On Social Structure and Science
(Heritage of Sociology Series)
by Robert K. Merton
Piotr Sztompka (Editor)
University of Chicago Press
ISBN 0226520706
Social Theory and Social Structure
by Robert K. Merton
out of print, published in 1982 by Macmillan USA
ISBN 0029211301
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Adam Smith Building
40 Bute Gardens
Glasgow G12 8RT
Scotland
book mentioned in the interview with John Eldridge
The Sociological Imagination (Pelican)
by C.Wright Mills
Penguin Books - ISBN 0140211306
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