HUMAN 1C Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Victim Blaming, Traumatic Brain Injury, Feres V. United States
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War stories as interpretation: stories are just interpretations. Liminality: civilian soldier civilian. Transitions between them: basic training gets rid of individualism of a civilian to make you a soldier. After you go back to civilian, veterans might have identity issues and struggle to become a civilian again: ambiguous territory where identity is confusing, discrepancy within transitions. Not a lot of help for the soldiers to transition back to civilian. No institutional framework to help soldiers to go back to civilian life. Military masculinity vs. civilian femininity: basic training, yell at you. Makes you manly and better than being a civilian, or feminine . Military is manly and masculine and powerful. Deindividuation: american culture creates individualism but military wants the opposite. Military wants the soldiers as a whole. Wants you to attach to a larger group. Severely hamper transition from soldier to civilian life. Victim blaming: blames the victim for being raped, doesn"t blame on the perpetrator but the victim.
