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  title info:
    title: "Terrorist group" or "social movement"
    sub title: groupism and the problem of common sense categories in comparative political research
  title info:
    title: Groupism and the problem of common sense categories in comparative political research
  name:
    name part: Duhart, Philippe Eugéne
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Case studies
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: Objectivity is a constant struggle for social scientists, requiring a reflexive "break" with the social world. Central to this break is the distinction between categories of analysis and categories of practice. That is, we cannot treat the symbolic representation of reality as objective reality, but instead analyze social facts and political claims as reality-producing instruments. We must, furthermore, avoid the pitfalls of groupism, that is, the tendency to treat practical representations of "groups," such as "terrorist organizations" and "social movements," as substantial, unified actors. We cannot ignore the objective existence of social groups, nor can we take for granted that they exist in practice--or in line with their asserted or ascribed representations. Groupist labels are powerful practical weapons in political struggles over the representation of reality--and over the monopolization of the instruments that make representations objective realities. Thus, social scientists cannot take "terrorist organizations" and "social movements" as categories of analysis but as objects to be investigated and explained. I demonstrate this in relation to my own research into the divergent outcomes of insurgent peacemaking in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country. I conclude by arguing that social scientists must take an iterative approach, moving back-and-forth between the instrumental and symbolic, ensuring that our analytical language functions as an analytical toolkit suited to understanding social and political life as objectively as possible while not legitimizing arbitrary ideological claims as scientific "fact."
  target audience: specialized
  note: Philippe Eugéne Duhart.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Social movements
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Terrorist organizations
  subject:
    topic: Mouvements sociaux
    genre: Études de cas
  subject:
    topic: Organisations terroristes
  subject:
    topic: Social movements
  subject:
    topic: Terrorist organizations
  classification: HM881 .D84 2018
  classification: 303.484
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SAGE Research Methods
      part name: Cases
  identifier: 9781526444615
  identifier: 1526444615
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: SGPBL
    record creation date: 180104
    record change date: 20240923170527.5
    record identifier: in00005496357
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng