Scapegoating Practice
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A Scapegoating Practice is a social pratice of singling out any party for unmerited negative treatment or blame as a scapegoat.
References
2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/scapegoating Retrieved:2015-2-21.
- Scapegoating (from the verb "to scapegoat") is the practice of singling out any party for unmerited negative treatment or blame as a scapegoat. Scapegoating may be conducted by individuals against individuals (e.g. "he did it, not me!"), individuals against groups (e.g., "I couldn't see anything because of all the tall people"), groups against individuals (e.g., "Jane was the reason our team didn't win"), and groups against groups.
A scapegoat may be an adult, sibling, child, employee, peer, ethnic or religious group, or country. A whipping boy, identified patient or “fall guy” are forms of scapegoat.
- Scapegoating (from the verb "to scapegoat") is the practice of singling out any party for unmerited negative treatment or blame as a scapegoat. Scapegoating may be conducted by individuals against individuals (e.g. "he did it, not me!"), individuals against groups (e.g., "I couldn't see anything because of all the tall people"), groups against individuals (e.g., "Jane was the reason our team didn't win"), and groups against groups.
1945
- (Orwell, 1945) ⇒ G. Orwell. (1945). “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story." Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN:9780547370224