The rise of the shame society : America's change from a guilt culture into a shame culture /
"American society is often characterized as a "guilt culture," as opposed to non-Western "shame cultures." But is this distinction still valid today? Through examples like shaming penalties in criminal law, "fat shaming," and cyberbullying on the social media, this...
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The rise of the modern shame society
- Prologue: Guilt versus shame
- What is shame and what is guilt and which of the two is "better"?
- New shaming practices : back to the past?
- The changing character of individualism
- Economic individualism : individualism's "ugly face"?
- The "other-directed person" : conformity instead of individualism?
- Joyless consumption
- Expressive individualism and its holy grail : "authenticity"
- How expressive individualism morphed into narcissism
- The narcissist's pursuit of the perfect body
- Narcissism goes global
- The happiness revolution
- De-shaming processes I : is racial shame becoming "old shame"?
- De-shaming processes II : de-shaming of LGBTQI people and people with a disability
- The emergence of new shame I : fat shaming
- The emergence of new shame II : Hikikomori : the young hermits
- Conclusion: Respect : what is it and to whom do we owe it?
