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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.
The conventional approach to suicide is psychiatric: ask the
average person why people kill themselves, and they will likely
cite depression. But this approach fails to recognize suicide's
social causes. People kill themselves because of breakups and
divorces, because of lost jobs and ruined finances, because of
public humiliations and the threat of arrest. While some
psychological approaches address external stressors, this
comprehensive study is the first to systematically examine suicide
as a social behavior with social catalysts. Drawing on Donald
Black's theories of conflict management and pure sociology, Suicide
presents a new theory of the social conditions that compel an
aggrieved person to turn to self-destruction. Interpersonal
conflict plays a central but underappreciated role in the incidence
of suicide. Examining a wide range of cross-cultural cases, Jason
Manning argues that suicide arises from increased inequality and
decreasing intimacy, and that conflicts are more likely to become
suicidal when they occur in a context of social inferiority. As
suicide rates continue to rise around the world, this timely new
theory can help clinicians, scholars, and members of the general
public to explain and predict patterns of self-destructive
behavior.
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