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	Scapegoating in Groups: A Challenge to the Leader
		The scapegoating of a member emerges as a primitive attempt by the group to maintain individual psychic integrity and group stability in the face of the development of conflicts and differences.
		The scapegoated individual assumes a counterdependent posture relative to other members, and, thus, appears to be the only differentiated member in a seemingly homogeneous group (Lyndon, 1994).
		Once patients are able to develop an awareness of the scapegoating process, the therapist can proceed with exploring the viewpoints underlying the conflict and the sense of dissatisfaction at this stage in the group's life.
	www.agpa.org /pubs/GC_0103_scapegoating.html (1386 words)

	Scapegoat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scapegoating is the act of holding a person, group of people, or thing responsible for a multitude of problems.
		Scapegoating is an important tool of propaganda; for example, the Jews were singled out in Nazi propaganda as the source of Germany's economic woes and political collapse.
		Scapegoating is often more devastating when applied to a minority group as they are inherently less able to defend themselves.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scapegoating (875 words)

	Stop the Scapegoating
		Scapegoating takes many forms and results in consequences of all magnitudes, from the mass slaughter of Jews by Crusaders and Nazis to hate crimes committed against racial minorities and homosexuals to certain strains of anti-immigrant sentiment.
		Scapegoating necessarily relies on rationalization, a faux "reason" that allegedly explains why a certain person or group "deserves" the blame for some injustice or harmful act of nature.
		Scapegoating means giving to others what is not due to them, but what is arbitrarily assigned to them based on a distortion of the facts.
	www.freecolorado.com /2006/10/scapegoat.html (2519 words)

	Scapegoating, journalism, newspapers, New York Times, liberalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Scapegoating refers to the inculcating into a subject audience of an artificial fear.
		As is the case in templating, scapegoating draws upon fears that may be valid, but amplifies them to unreasonable proportions.
		While theologians and moralists may condemn scapegoating, and some scholars may point out its ultimately counterproductive results, the reality is that elites and leaders who are interested in pursuing power over the short term find the device tempting, and may resort to its use.
	www.raginglady.com /scapegoating.htm (399 words)

	Scapegoating
		For individuals, scapegoating is a psychological defense mechanism of denial through projecting responsibility and blame on others.[2] It allows the perpetrator to eliminate negative feelings about him or herself and provides a sense of gratification.
		Once scapegoating is perceived to be successful in generating positive feelings in perpetrators, there is likely to be reluctance to give it up.
		Scapegoating is the identification--then blaming and punishing--of individuals for problems that rightly belong to the larger organization.
	www.beyondintractability.org /essay/scapegoating/?nid=1044 (1253 words)

	Scapegoats, Scapegoating Psychology, Undoing Blame
		Scapegoating is a hostile social - psychological discrediting routine by which people move blame and responsibility away from themselves and towards a target person or group.
		Scapegoating has a wide range of focus: from "approved" enemies of very large groups of people down to the scapegoating of individuals by other individuals.
		In scapegoating, feelings of guilt, aggression, blame and suffering are transferred away from a person or group so as to fulfill an unconscious drive to resolve or avoid such bad feelings.
	www.scapegoat.demon.co.uk (892 words)

	PublicEye.org - Conspiracism as a Flawed Worldview
		Conspiracism is a narrative form of scapegoating that portrays an enemy as part of a vast insidious plot against the common good.
		As a distinct narrative form of scapegoating, conspiracism uses demonization to justify constructing the scapegoats as wholly evil while reconstructing the scapegoater as a hero.
		In Western culture, conspiracist scapegoating is rooted in apocalyptic fears and millennial expectations.
	www.publiceye.org /top_conspire.html (1146 words)

	The Fallacy of Scapegoating (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The scapegoating of Jews is a growing phenomenon among both the Left and the Right politically, and, sad to say, including some in the Southern movement.
		Scapegoating is an intellectually lazy diversion that engenders malice.
		Sure, we're all in on it-- we whites are all secretly in on the vast conspiracy to introduce things to destroy the fl family, exclude brilliant fl geniuses from various fields, steal the fruits of the fl man’s labour, and to keep dominance over him.
	southernevents.org /fallacy_of_scapegoating.htm (2910 words)

	Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology: Scapegoating
		Then the scapegoated person or group is blamed as the cause of a problem.
		In many scapegoating situations, the anger and aggression of the dominant person or group is displaced, or projected, onto the victim.
		Scapegoating never truly solves any problems, it merely deflects attention away from the person or group who most needs help.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0006/ai_2699000608 (564 words)

	BCTF Poverty Lesson Aid - Blaming the Victim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is called scapegoating, and it is something like blaming a weather forecaster for bad weather.
		Scapegoating is a system of control by the powerful.
		Scapegoating occurs in many forms, but one feature of all scapegoating is the attempt to portray a particular group of people in an unfavorable or negative light.
	www.bctf.bc.ca /LessonAids/online/la2030/blaming.html (2026 words)

	The Public Eye : Website of Political Research Associates-Scapegoating
		Scapegoating of immigrants and welfare recipients is used regularly by mainstream politicians to attract votes.
		Periodic waves of state repression are justified through conspiracist scapegoating that claims networks of subversives are poised to undermine the government.
		While scapegoating in the US is primarily the territory of the political right including Republicans, some Democratic Party politicians pander to the tendency, and even a few on the left adopt scapegoating out of ignorance, desperation, or an appalling absence of morality.
	www.publiceye.org /tooclose/scapegoating.html (285 words)

	Chronicles of Love & Resentment CCLI
		Scapegoating or "emissary victimage" is the defining operation of René Girard’s originary scene.
		The proto-human group, caught up in the violent chaos of "mimetic crisis," finds unanimity by directing its aggression against a single, marginal individual; his death ends the crisis and he is subsequently venerated as the bringer of peace.
		Scapegoating may be understood as a derivative of scenic activity, but to reduce the mediating locus of human communication to a lynching party is to deny the freedom acquired through representation that is the most important product of the scene.
	www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu /views/vw251.htm (1453 words)

	GABlog » Blog Archive » Chronicle 329 and 332: Scapegoating and the Sacrificial Order
		Scapegoating by definition always involves the sacred, human violence is the sacred, and the sacred is the sacrificial, scapegoating.
		Rather than talk about scapegoating and the sacred as though they exist on separate ontological planes until they converge in the figure of the big man in hierarchical society, I would say that the sacred becomes increasingly humanized and that scapegoating (and the big man) are indications of this.
		Scapegoating is a late or “mature” historical development of it, just as the declarative is a development of the simpler ostensive.
	dev.cdh.ucla.edu /GABlog/?p=11 (5534 words)

	National Youth Rights Association - Scapegoating of Youth
		Due to powerful advocacy and protection organizations, scapegoating of other minorities is on the decline and the one remaining minority with no voice or say in society is our nation's youth.
		A highly visible manifestation of this scapegoating is evident in society's treatment of youth violence.
		Most indicative of this youth scapegoating and labeling is the theory of the oncoming "super-predator" described by John DiIulio, a professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University, in a 1995 article in the conservative Weekly Standard magazine.
	www.youthrights.org /scapegoat.php (2780 words)

	Undoing Scapegoating
		Scapegoating is a human social-psychological process which can be, but seldom is, brought to proper completion - to closure.
		In most scapegoating cases there is only a slim chance of undoing - the perpetrator has much to lose, and taking responsibility for what he has done may not be his strongest point.
		Fifteen years after a major, and strongly resisted, scapegoating began it was undone, quickly and in a very calm manner, as a result of the person responsible for the scapegoating attending a large-group awareness training called The Forum.
	www.scapegoat.demon.co.uk /undoing.htm (1696 words)

	APING, SCAPEGOATING, AND OTHER MEANS OF DENIAL
		His murder blew apart the scapegoating mechanism, ripping it from the darkness of lies and secrecy, throwing it into the light.
		Scapegoating cannot tolerate the light and remain itself.
		In fact, scapegoating helps them to manage and temper their colossal violence, so that it doesn't tip out of control and tear them apart.
	www.jonahhouse.org /Scapegoating.htm (2618 words)

	Anyara-Essays: Scapegoating Groups
		In scapegoating this means that no one feels responsible for projecting his own rejected and split-off feelings onto the chosen scapegoat or scapegoats.
		Invisible scapegoating may be hardest to take: it is typically Neptunian, difficult to come to grips, yet often very real.
		Invisible and usually unintentional scapegoating may also happen in therapy or in astrological consultation, in such cases interpretations or expert opinions are used as a way to act out unconscious aggression any time the interpreter feels, for instance, somehow threatened.
	koti.mbnet.fi /neptunia/essays/sggroup1.htm (1289 words)

	Be Careful of Scapegoating--Radio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Scapegoating occurs when a child consistently is blamed for shortcomings and failures.
		Psychologists tell us that some scapegoating occurs in most families but that it is usually "passed around." No one family member is the constant victim of this situation.
		He or she has learned that misbehavior will at least get some kind of attention, even though it may be negative.
	www.penpages.psu.edu /penpages_reference/28507/285071355.HTML (221 words)

	BCTF Poverty Lesson Aid - Blaming the Victim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is called scapegoating, and it is something like blaming a weather forecaster for bad weather.
		Scapegoating is a system of control by the powerful.
		Scapegoating occurs in many forms, but one feature of all scapegoating is the attempt to portray a particular group of people in an unfavorable or negative light.
	www.bctf.ca /LessonAids/online/la2030/blaming.html (2026 words)

	Mental Help Net - Mental Disorders - Scapegoating And Mental Illness Stigma
		In the scapegoating ritual, the sins of a community are magically transferred from the community members onto an animal (a goat or other animal suitable for sacrifice) and then the animal is destroyed or driven off away from the community.
		The community practicing scapegoating believed that, through the destruction or segregation of the sacrificial animal which magically now carried all the sin for the community, that the community was cleansed in front of what ever form of deity might be judging them.
		While literal sacrifice of scapegoated animals is less popular today than it used to be, the psychological practice of scapegoating has remained alive and well and has shaped our cultural attitudes towards mental illness.
	www.mentalhelp.net /poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=686&cn=144 (1592 words)

	The Snake Oil of Scapegoating
		Racist and sexist scapegoating make it easier to forget that the majority of poor people are White.
		The Democrats have reaped the scapegoating divisions they sowed with their moves to the right on “welfare reform,” immigration, and so on.
		It is time to strip away the camouflage of scapegoating from the upward redistribution of wealth.
	www.zmag.org /zmag/articles/may95sklar.htm (4059 words)

	Flares into Darkness: Scapegoating and Denial
		To identify primal fear as the denominator common to the anti-American scapegoating now emanating from some quarters in Europe is not to suggest anything like sinister intent.
		The same is true of the pundits who have made a different industry of scapegoating in the U.S. All have their reasons, and the overriding reason is an obvious one.
		No, loner this is not about scapegoating the left, it is about scapegoats in general and the purpose they serve.
	yargb.blogspot.com /2006/12/scapegoating-and-denial.html (2541 words)

	Scapegoats at Work — www.greenwood.com
		Their psychological sharpness unfolds in a textured sense of the social world--the place we all really live and struggle.
		Kaiser Medical Center: Offers an understanding of how and why we blame and creates the challenge to change our values to produce a far better environment to operate in and be successful....This is a must read for all HR Professionals that would like to participate in a successful performance-based organization.
		Description: Scapegoating is the identification--then blaming and punishing--of individuals for problems that rightly belong to the larger organization.
	www.greenwood.com /books/BookDetail.asp?dept_id=1&sku=C8182 (409 words)

	Anyara-Essays: Scapegoating
		We need not go to fiction or history to find tragedies caused by scapegoating, we just have to look around - scapegoaters with an unconscious need to get rid of their own grievances and negativity are still after suitable scapegoats.
		In practical life scapegoating is to be found everywhere, we may, for instance, use simple enemy-creation to create cohesion or to unite groups.
		According to Rene Girard the scapegoating mechanism is simply essential in modern society.
	koti.mbnet.fi /neptunia/essays/sgintro1.htm (777 words)

	RealClearPolitics - Articles - The Scapegoats Among Us
		The libertarians do have an important part of the truth in tow, a truth giving their anti-Christianism its zeal, thus fulfilling the versimilitude requirement of scapegoating: We in the West are indeed, as they charge, threatened by certain people in the grip of a totalitarian interpretation of religion.
		That is not to confuse the scapegoating of Bush with legitimate criticism of Bush's decisions, especially of the war in Iraq.
		That is why the appearance of scapegoating since 9/11 bears watching all its own: because freedom can be curtailed one baby step at a time, and fuzzy ideas about reality only accelerate them.
	www.realclearpolitics.com /articles/2006/12/the_scapegoats_among_us.html (6767 words)

	Propaganda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For instance, reporting on a foreign country or social group may focus on the stereotypical traits that the reader expects, even though they are far from being representative of the whole country or group; such reporting often focuses on the anecdotal.
		Scapegoating: Assigning blame to an individual or group that isn't really responsible, thus alleviating feelings of guilt from responsible parties and/or distracting attention from the need to fix the problem for which blame is being assigned.
		Virtue words: These are words in the value system of the target audience which tend to produce a positive image when attached to a person or issue.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Propaganda (5099 words)

	Baylis
		The fall of Communism in eastern Germany, as elsewhere in Eastern Europe, has brought with it a rather ugly outburst of scapegoating.
		One of the targets of righteous venom has been Western GDR research, particularly that carried on by scholars influenced directly or indirectly by the late Peter Christian Ludz.
		But the kind of shrill scapegoating we have seen has no proper place in our efforts.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Lobby/9362/baylis.html (484 words)

	Wired News: Scapegoating Children Won't Solve Grown-Up Problems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It's almost an American tradition to cluck about the decline of the young, but the current wave of scapegoating children for the very problems inflicted on them by their elders has become a social, journalistic, and political outrage.
		As the l996 presidential campaign has demonstrated so convincingly, the scapegoating of the young is now a bipartisan political theme.
		His book provides the young with some badly needed ammunition to fight back against their being scapegoated by people who do - or should - know better.
	www.wired.com /news/print/0,1294,730,00.html (714 words)

	Political Scapegoating
		Scapegoating is a favorite pastime of politicians and pundits: laying blame on one’s political opponents.
		It is part of the American political tradition – and the Canadian – to avoid scapegoating our military enemies after the war ends.
		The politics of scapegoating is always the politics of wealth redistribution.
	www.lewrockwell.com /north/north111.html (2905 words)

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