ANTHROP 3HI3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Structural Violence, Biopolitics, Victim Blaming
21 Apr 2016
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Blaming of victims stems from the strong belief that the world we live in is fair and just. Idea that bad things only happen to people who did something wrong or that they deserve it. People who suffer from debilitating diseases must have done something bad to deserve that: cognitive biases: Peoples behaviours are influenced by their behaviours. Makes false assumptions of others behaviours solely based on the: leads to secondary victimization outcome, society reinforces pre-existing ideas, fears, and inequalities to victims through the form of communicability. Influences society and legislation: still ramped today only recently identified as problematic. External blame: the individual is not to blame, circumstances outside of the individuals realm that leads to the contraction of. Hiv and so they are not blamed for their illness i. e. poverty, discrimination, etc: 3. Societal blame: correlates to the cause of an event with social and structural factors.
