radicalizations

Shifts toward extremism

Radicalizations are processes by which people adopt extreme political, religious, or social views.

The term usually implies movement toward positions that reject mainstream society or embrace violence: The report examined radicalizations of young men through online forums.

A single person's journey is a radicalization; the plural suggests multiple instances or patterns across groups.

political

extremism

Ideology beyond accepted norms

recruitment · propaganda · terrorism · militancy · ideologies · movements · cells · manifestos · lone wolves · counterterrorism

process

conversion

Act of changing states

brainwashing · isolation · grievances · alienation · vulnerability · pathways · stages · triggers · online · social media

academic

studies

Learns through examination

  • researchSystematic fact-finding effort
  • theoriesExplanations based on evidence
  • modelsScaled representations or fashion workers

analysis · sociology · psychology · counternarratives · risk factors · indicators · warning signs · case studies · empirical · qualitative

Opposites
ideological intensity

radicalizationsmoderations

Acts of lessening extremes

mainstreaming · temperings · softenings · normalizations · dilutions

social integration

radicalizationsreintegrations

Acts of rejoining groups

rehabilitations · assimilations · incorporations · socializations · mainstreaming

conflict trajectory

radicalizationsdeescalations

Acts of calming conflicts

pacifications · demobilizations · disengagements · reconciliations · calming

Family

deradicalization, radicalization

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