ABSTRACT
The broader theoretical approach so far has been one based on rational choice; the overall argument with relation to the choice of the Islamist radical occupation has relied on the concepts of occupational choice categories – standing, recognition and reward – which vary in terms of definition and implications as compared to other occupations, with the variance of radical interpretative frameworks. This chapter examines this latter concept more in detail: what these frameworks are, how they emerge and change along the radicalisation process and how they relate to similar concepts and processes existent in the literature, in particular framing theory in social movements. In other words, the approach now shifts to the level of language and ideas.
