Socialization process of the individuals who join terrorist organizations in Turkey.
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Title
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Socialization process of the individuals who join terrorist organizations in Turkey.
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Identifier
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AAI3245098
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identifier
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3245098
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Creator
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Kule, Ahmet.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Maria (Maki) Haberfeld
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Date
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2007
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Sociology, Criminology and Penology | Sociology, Individual and Family Studies
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Abstract
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In this study, the important factors on the socialization process of Turkish individuals that lead them to join terrorist organizations were identified and explained according to principles of these two theories. Differential association theory and social learning theories were utilized as the theoretical framework of the study.;The main methodological objective of this study was to obtain information regarding socialization (initiation) process of individuals into the terrorist organizations that is helpful to make a comparison between three organizations. The required data were obtained from the official court records.;Dependent variable is being a member of The PKK (Partiya Karkaren Kurdistan - Kurdistan Workers' Party), or the DHKP-C (Revolutionary People's Liberation Party - Front), or Turkish Hizbullah. Independent variables of this study include age, sex, ethnicity, birth place, type of birth place, education, marital status, occupation, profession, number of family members convicted of terrorism, and etc.;The findings of this research are presented in three different parts. The first part includes frequency tables and contingency tables, and characteristics of the subjects will be described in this part. In the second part includes bivariate analyses. Two-way crosstabulations and chi-square tests of significance are used to explore relationships between various variables. The third part includes multivariate analyses. Three multinomial logit regression modes are developed to explore the controlled effects of the predictors on the dependent variable. The findings in those three parts are compared to the findings in the literature as well.;The findings of this study showed that 46.9 percent of the subjects were initiated by friends; 9.8 percent by relatives; 8.8 percent by family members; and 1.5 percent by lovers. These findings support the findings in the literature and support the principles of the social learning theory and differential association theory. The findings also indicated the significant differences between the three terrorist organizations regarding the socialization process of their members.;It is hoped that this study will be an example for the future studies that will utilize social learning theory to explain terrorism. And it is also hoped that this study will open new avenues of terrorism studies in Turkey.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
