Here one can notice a deeper commitment. The Push Factors and The Pull Factors: factors that can push someone into taking extreme action or pull him or her towards such actions. […]
Here one can notice a deeper commitment. The Push Factors and The Pull Factors: factors that can push someone into taking extreme action or pull him or her towards such actions. […]
Push factors:
• Sense of grievance, injustice
• Need for identity, meaning, belonging/comradeship
• Desire for excitement, challenge, adventure
• Need for status, significance
• Criminality
• Attraction to authoritarian ideologies
• Certain mental health problems
Pull factors:
• Ideology provides a diagnostic function
• Identification with a noble cause, accessing a proxy family, social capital
• Access to excitement, challenge, adventure
• Empowered by extremist identity
• Outlet for criminal capability
• Opportunity to be an authoritarian leader or follower
• Extremist ideologies can make sense of a confusing world