become radicalized into Islamist groups.
The working class boy may not care what middle class people think of him, this in a way applies to young western Muslims, they may not care what people think of them but to degree they are both sensitive about the attitudes of persons with whom they have superficial contact such as school friends and teachers. They may make an effort to change with conformity, or they may attempt to justify or explain why their inferiority in terms which will exculpate them, they may decide they don’t actually care what they think and react with anger and aggression, in the case of the young Muslims this may be through acts of terrorism (Cohen 1955 p124).
Cohen (1955 p128) argues “it is a plausible assumption, then, that working class boys whose status is low in middle class terms cares about that status, that this status confronts