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The security of modern society and an individual is seriously tested by a terrorist threat, which is often perceived as something external, that violates relative social harmony and order. Attempts to “seal” society, to protect it from any form of extremism, lead to huge public costs, but do not lead to the elimination of the threat. The article discusses the problem of sociocultural mechanisms of terrorism dissemination and the question of how philosophical framework of public security strategy should be changed ...

The paper presents heuristic potential and philosophical interpretation of the concept of “ontological security”, developed in sociology of A. Giddens. This concept is important for understanding gaining security of the individual in risk, liquid and turbulent environment of modern society. Giddens' theory shows how transformations of classical modernity on the way to late modernity (postmodern or radicalized modernity) make social world unpredictable and unstable and change the relationship between time and s...

In the article the problem of definition of extremism and theoretical interpretation of its essence is observed. Modern theoretical extremism researches are characterized by a remarkable variety of methodological approaches and concepts. The attempt to classify them just in the group around the problem of radicalization of social and political movements into violent extremism might result in enumeration of several dozens of sociological and other social theories. Whereby, the notion of extremism maintains its conc...

The paper issue is theoretical and methodological basis of studies in suicide terrorism motivation and rationality, legitimized by radical Islam. Two methodological ideas are identified as dominant and defining paradigmal features of Western researches of suicide terrorism - the concept of rational actor and multi-causal approach. Concept of rational actor in most cases is interpreted through the sociological point of view: it takes into account a social group, not an individual. When individual motivation is view...