THE SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE EVENTS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

The Sociological Perspective on the Events of September 11, 2001

The Sociological Perspective On The Events Of September 11, 2001

Introduction

The attacks on New York in September 2001 and subsequent attacks on other Western targets continue to assist as a stimulus for several academic disciplines. It is relevant to the need of post-9/11 Western authorities, the likes of worldwide relations, political research, middle eastern studies, and comparative religion have, not less than to some span, reassessed their objects. sociology has not answered in anything like the identical manner, presuming, it appears that its object desires no adjustment for the area to be as applicable to post-9/11 Western authorities as any of the other disciplines listed. Taking 'the social' to be sociology's basic object, the very detail of interacting humans, sociology's most rudimentary object - needs no change for the control and esteem to make analysis of the post-9/11 world that are applicable in one way, the grade of relevance engaged is so rudimentary as to be meaningless. Humans still interact in mostly the similar way in which they did before 9/11, but this is to state little more than that the sun still arrives up. This is not, although, the major source of the relevance problem. Where Sociology is falling behind in the relevance stakes is in the way it conceptualizes the social after the basic-interaction understanding. By being so nearly aligned with one or another pattern of what is called the reason-morality comprehending.

Understanding has a powerful inclination in the direction of the concept that human societies have the capability to progress), the control and esteem is missing the opening to discover a competitor comprehending that really underlies what it was that was attacked on 9/11 and in later attacks on Western goals, what I call the politico lawful comprehending (mostly the gift of the municipal enlightenment that Kant so vigorously opposed; in this way, the politico-legal comprehending is profoundly doubtful of reason-morality advancement projects).

 

Discussion

In 2002, on the surrounds of "national security," immigration administration organized juvenile men from predominantly Muslim nations to "voluntarily" present themselves to be interrogated, fingerprinted, photographed and allotted a registration number. The program eventually completed last December, but the impairment was done.

More than 14,000 of the 83,000 men who obeyed with the alignment were deported, compelled to depart their families behind--most for secondary immigration violations--all without developing a ...