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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Scapegoat"”.
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Scapegoat: An autoethnography of a care professional who became de-registered following regulatory body fitness-to-practise proceedings.
There is little understanding of the impact of UK Statutory Regulatory Bodies’ Fitness-to-Practise (FtP) procedures upon health and social care professionals who go through the system. Empirical research related to the emotional and psychological effects on care professionals is sparse. To date, no …
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The Ritualization of Violence in <em>The Magic Toyshop</em>
… beliefs and collective violence against a scapegoat. My critical reading of the text will look closely at how Philip uses the pseudo-sacred to build up the community. When the pseudo-sacred is finally called into question the community is threatened. Although Philip attempts to deflect …
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A violent origin : a Girardian analysis of the scapegoating of Ali ibn Abu Talib in Shi'ite tradition
… dissertation applies Rene Girard's theory of the scapegoat mechanism to prove that Ali ibn Abu Talib appears in Shi'ite traditions as an innocent victim. The aim is to investigate Girard's substantial body of work to determine whether Ali was a scapegoat and a victim of a conspiracy within his …
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Those We Replace
… themes of loss, family, and how a community will scapegoat an individual.
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Scapegoating International Socialisation: Russia’s (Re-)Encounter Narrative 1999-2018
… has used Ukraine and other third actors as scapegoats for Russia’s self-perceived failures in the Western-led international order after the Cold War. Building on critical International Relations (IR) scholarship on social hierarchy and identity, the thesis’s starting point is to take states’ …
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Revisiting the Concept of Adaptive Familial Roles and Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA): Forty Years Later
… overachiever), Mascot (family clown), Scapegoat (rebellious/disruptive behaviours), and Lost Child (withdrawn/isolated). Data were collected from 327 participants (M age = 35.3 years) who self-identified and were grouped as ACOA, Abused, ACOA+Abused, or Control. Generally, the ACOA …
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The Theme Of Sacrifice: A Comparison Of The Primitive Practices Recorded In The Golden Bough With Representative Works Of Faulkner
… ancient ceremonies surrounding the killing of a scapegoat. Fourth, having an understanding of the patterns of sacrifice in The Golden Bough helps one see how Faulkner has blended Christian and primitive ideas in Requiem for a Nun. Finally, the imagery of the Blood of the Lamb, Dilsey's …
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Conditioned food aversions in cancer chemotherapy
… foods consumed before chemotherapy act as a scapegoat foods to interfere with aversions to other foods consumed later? Twenty-six adult cancer chemotherapy patients participated. They were divided into novel and familiar groups. At the conditioning trial the novel group consumed a novel …
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Framing Alberta’s NDP: How is the AbNDP, a Vehicle for Leftist Politics, Framed in a Conservative Canadian Province?
… and foil for conservative parties, as well as a scapegoat for Alberta’s woes, which conservative parties highlighted through framing within social media. This paper uses frame analysis to determine how framing was used in the election campaigns by conservative parties, how progressives are …
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Lashing Back At the Wind
… which leads back to limited agency for the scapegoated target of this violence. I use the theories of existentialist philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus to construct stories that put characters in conflict with the inherent meaninglessness of existence and to investigate these …
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From ‘sacred and undeniable’ to ‘self-evident’: a rhetorical analysis of Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence
… writing his draft was to turn George III into a scapegoat for all forms of tyranny within the colonies, including the institution of slavery, so that by expunging the King they would be absolved of their attachment to the slave trade and could reform their new American identity in opposition to …
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The sins of the sons: a comparative analysis of guilt, atonement and redemption in Kafka's Die Verwandlung and Thomas Mann's Der Erwahlte with reference to Hartmann von Aue's Gregorius
… and reintegrated, Kafka‟s protagonist is a true scapegoat, irrevocably excluded in death.
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The Irish revolutionary period as a rite of passage: things hidden since the foundation of the state
… 1979); 'mimesis', violence, sacrifice and the scapegoat mechanism (Girard, 2003); the 'hero'; (Giesen, 2004); charismatic leadership (Weber, 2012) and 'Trickster' (Jung (1991), Radin (1972), Hyde (2008), and Szakolczai (2000)).
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Often treated harshly: Girls and young women in 1957 Perth
… police, quite small, but nevertheless served a scapegoat purpose in a time when social anxiety existed within increasing prosperity.
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Out of control? : local democracy failure and fiscal control boards
… needing access to resources; and provide a scapegoat for unpopular policies. Conversely, disadvantages include diminished sovereignty; power to external political actors; favorable concessions to the private market; and uncertain benefits.
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BEYOND BANALITY: REASSESSING THE FOUNDATIONS OF ARENDT'S 'BANALITY OF EVIL'
… within Arendt's framework that seems to allow a scapegoat excuse toward the behaviour of Eichmann – who is, after all the architect of the Final Solution, that resulted in the death of around six million Jews from 1942-1945.
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An ideological criticism of David Duke's rhetoric of racism and exclusion
… beyond Rojo's concept of demonization and uses scapegoating to blame minorities for America's social ills. By using people of color as a scapegoat, Duke effectively excludes them from participating in the debate over social concerns.</p>
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The Complex Ways Religion and Place Inform Climate Belief: Lessons from the Global Latter-day Saint (Mormon) Community
… impact means it should be approached as neither scapegoat nor salvation for future environmental policies.
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