The Rise of Victimhood Culture Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars /

• Main Authors: Campbell, Bradley (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Manning, Jason (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: 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.

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 mora...

Table of Contents:

• 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.