Жертвенные формы поведения в обществе и культуре

Abstract

In the context of social sciences the victimization means that the process of formation of sacrificial consciousness and behavior becomes part of a person's everyday world. The authors believe that the sacrifice in modern society is in many respects a rather habitual form of human behavior, which often initiates a person to unconscious and conscious acts of sacrifice and manifestation of it in various modifications and spheres of life. Sacrifice in human life, its importance in the processes of reproduction of cultural processes, the distribution of its states in the age and gender dimensions can be traced, from the ancient world to today. In many cases, this phenomenon contains a large manipulative potential and leads the individual to a subconscious desire to be a victim, an incorrect identification and a cultural reference. According to the authors the desire of modern culture to interpret victimization as a socially desirable phenomenon is marked by two contradictory trends: these are improvements in the life of society as a whole, as well as processes of deterioration of the person's personal life, manipulation of it. There is an active inclusion of sacrificial forms of behavior in the mass culture, their introduction into patterns of thinking and behavior. The diverse processes of cultural massization lead to a constant increase in the victim's behavioral patterns of individuals of different age groups. Victimology today becomes an attractive trend for study in a multidisciplinary discourse.