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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300586503321

Autore

Campbell Bradley

Titolo

The Rise of Victimhood Culture [[electronic resource] ] : Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars / / by Bradley Campbell, Jason Manning

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-70329-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 pages)

Disciplina

306.20973

Soggetti

Social sciences

Culture

Mass media

Communication

Sociology

Political sociology

Digital media

Popular Social Sciences

Sociology of Culture

Media Sociology

Knowledge - Discourse

Political Sociology

Digital/New Media

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Microaggression and the Culture of Victimhood -- 2. Microaggression and the Structure of Victimhood -- 3. Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces, and the Language of Victimhood -- 4. False Accusations, Moral Panics, and the Manufacture of Victimhood -- 5. Opposition, Imitation, and the Spread of Victimhood -- 6. Sociology, Social Justice, and Victimhood -- 7. Victimhood, Academic Freedom, and Free Speech -- 8. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

The Rise of Victimhood Culture offers a framework for understanding



recent moral conflicts at U.S. universities, which have bled into society at large. These are not the familiar clashes between liberals and conservatives or the religious and the secular: instead, they are clashes between a new moral culture—victimhood culture—and a more traditional culture of dignity. Even as students increasingly demand trigger warnings and “safe spaces,” many young people are quick to police the words and deeds of others, who in turn claim that political correctness has run amok. Interestingly, members of both camps often consider themselves victims of the other. In tracking the rise of victimhood culture, Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning help to decode an often dizzying cultural milieu, from campus riots over conservative speakers and debates around free speech to the election of Donald Trump. .