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Bomb threats were used to incite fear and violence during the American Civil Rights Movement, during which leader of the movement Martin Luther King Jr. received multiple bomb threats during public addresses, [3] [4] [5] and schools forced to integrate faced strong opposition, resulting in 43 bomb threats against Central High School in Arkansas being broadcast on TV and the radio.
Sociology of terrorism views terrorism as a "social construction." [1] Within this field, defining terrorism involves interpreting events and determining causes.This definition process and the resulting presentation to the public can manipulate public perceptions and promote certain interests. [1]
In semiotics, linguistics, sociology and anthropology, context refers to those objects or entities which surround a focal event, in these disciplines typically a communicative event, of some kind. Context is "a frame that surrounds the event and provides resources for its appropriate interpretation".
Sociology of disaster or sociological disaster research [1] is a sub-field of sociology that explores the social relations amongst both natural and human-made disasters. [2] Its scope includes local, national, and global disasters - highlighting these as distinct events that are connected by people through created displacement, trauma, and loss.
Events and topics in news stories are selected and worded to excite the greatest number of readers and viewers. This style of news reporting encourages biased or emotionally loaded impressions of events rather than neutrality , and may cause a manipulation to the truth of a story.
Bomb cyclones can occur when a cold air mass collides with a warm air mass, which is how some significant winter storms can happen. When an atmospheric river and bomb cyclone occur at the same ...
In its broadest sense, social vulnerability is one dimension of vulnerability to multiple stressors and shocks, including abuse, social exclusion and natural hazards.Social vulnerability refers to the inability of people, organizations, and societies to withstand adverse impacts from multiple stressors to which they are exposed.
The core thinking behind the mechanism approach has been expressed as follows by Elster (1989: 3-4): “To explain an event is to give an account of why it happened. Usually… this takes the form of citing an earlier event as the cause of the event we want to explain….