Risk and Blame¶
Douglas, M. (1992). Risk and Blame: Essays in Cultural Theory. Routledge.
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- Scapegoating
- What unites the religious rite, the office post-mortem, and the political enemy-construction is this same three-beat sequence: a collective under strain converts an unbearable, distributed problem into a single bearable target, and mistakes the relief of acting against it for the solution of the problem itself, a mechanism Douglas (1992) traces across institutions as a way of explaining misfortune by assigning culpability.
This sourceCultural-theoretic treatment of how institutions explain misfortune by assigning culpability
- What unites the religious rite, the office post-mortem, and the political enemy-construction is this same three-beat sequence: a collective under strain converts an unbearable, distributed problem into a single bearable target, and mistakes the relief of acting against it for the solution of the problem itself, a mechanism Douglas (1992) traces across institutions as a way of explaining misfortune by assigning culpability.
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