Tag: rigid and fluid society
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Cultural Scapegoating
Scapegoating is a behavioural phenomenon of people finding, consciously or subconsciously, an external guilty party for a number of things, ranging from weather phenomena to their own anger and anxiety to there and then problems in their environment (abusive behaviour, social inequality or perceptions of inequality – such as claimed or actual persecution -, a…
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Goth in the jungle – subculture and variety
We’ve survived the extensively Halloween themed week, so now, we’ll be moving on with a variety of anthropological themes. Today, we’ll be looking at subculture and variety, and we’ll use the Goth subculture around the globe as our case study. I’m going to start by challenging the perspective of subculture and mainstream culture. You see,…