0 a person who is blamed for something that someone else has done:
1 someone who is blamed or punished for another’s faults or actions:
2 a person or thing that is blamed for something bad that someone else has done:
3 to blame a person or thing for something bad that someone else has done:
In both cases, certain victims, heroes, enemies and scapegoats were at the heart of the interpretation.
No matter how perceptions of the environment are parsed, scapegoat theory receives precious little support from these data.
We must acknowledge at the outset that our test of scapegoat theory is incomplete.
One implication of this sort of 'diversion' is that potential scapegoats might employ strategic behaviour to avoid becoming a diversionary target.
To make sense of the crisis, the authorities looked for scapegoats.
It is at this point that anxious and threatened citizens often identify a scapegoat for societal problems.
Because monsters are always the constitutive outside of normativity, the scapegoats constructed of society's devouring anxieties, they can never safely be tucked away.
Political entrepreneurs seek political capital by mobilizing support for repressive and punitive actions against scapegoats.
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