The Rise of Victimhood Culture

Extremely timely topic that has received a lot of press, tends to spark controversy and strong feelings, and has the potential to appeal to both a lay and more scholarly audience
Written accessibly and engagingly, drawing form current events on college campuses as well as the Trump campaign/election

Will hold appeal across an array of disciplines including sociology, culture and media studies, psychology, politics, and American studies

A timely intervention in the hot-button topics of free speech and political correctness Accessibly engages with the sociological and cultural concerns arising from recent events on college campus and in wider society Relevant to an array of disciplines including sociology, culture and media studies, psychology, politics, and American studies

Autorentext
Bradley Campbell is Professor of Sociology at California State University, Los Angeles, USA.

Jason Manning is Associate Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University, USA.

Klappentext
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 culturevictimhood cultureand 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.

Inhalt

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.