institutions

Institutions have long been considered an important unit of analysis in sociological inquiry, despite the relative ambiguity surrounding their definition and dynamics. The dissertation below offers an integrative definition of what an institution is and turns our focus towards t…

This dissertation explores the Rastafari movement and the Nation of Islam as institutions that provide a group-identity for their adherents. The study seeks to determine the characteristics of the identity that is institutionalized by each movement, and the nature of the institu…

Terrorism scholars have posited that 90 percent of terrorist groups survive less than a year, and half of those which remain will not live to see the ten year-mark. This dissertation addresses the variety of means through which terrorist groups seek to acquire, move and store mo…