Not “Coddling” but “Rewiring”: Explaining Psychic Harm

IF 1.4 4区 社会学 Q2 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY Society Pub Date : 2024-09-03 DOI:10.1007/s12115-024-01015-2
Cassandra Sever
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Sensitivity to harm has become a crisis, and the reasons for this remain unexplained. Across organizations, individuals express psychic damage from trauma to microaggressions. Some call this rise in harm-oriented claims a loss of resilience due to an excess of “coddling.” Although harm is innately social, sociologists have seldom studied the deeper sources of this crisis. I advance a theoretical model to explain how psychic harm functions. The article considers why an eagerness to be perceived as socially marginalized has become commonplace. With in-depth interviews, I illustrate micro-level mechanisms that explain the individual advantages to asserting such claims. These psychic harm mechanisms reveal that social science has fundamentally shifted how individuals understand the self, others, and interaction. New disciplinary discourses—comprising a new epistemology—have contributed to rewiring how younger educated generations understand themselves and others, and these generations tend to spread the new ways of knowing across society. Ferreting out different forms of harm begets demands for ever-more diverse forms of safety, which has profound implications for free speech. I suggest that social science’s pronounced efforts to diminish inequality through a conjoined moral and political epistemology ultimately create a new system of stratification.

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不是 "溺爱",而是 "重新接线":解释心灵伤害
对伤害的敏感性已成为一种危机,而造成这种情况的原因仍然不明。在各个组织中,个人都表达了因创伤和微小侵害而造成的心理伤害。一些人将这种以伤害为导向的诉求的增加称为过度 "溺爱 "导致的复原力丧失。尽管伤害天生具有社会性,但社会学家却很少研究这种危机的深层根源。我提出了一个理论模型来解释心理伤害是如何运作的。文章探讨了为什么渴望被视为社会边缘人已成为一种普遍现象。通过深入访谈,我阐述了微观层面的机制,这些机制解释了主张这种主张的个人优势。这些心理伤害机制揭示了社会科学已经从根本上改变了个人对自我、他人和互动的理解。新的学科话语--包括一种新的认识论--有助于重塑年轻一代受过教育的人理解自己和他人的方式,而这一代人往往会在全社会传播新的认知方式。发现不同形式的伤害会产生对更多样化安全形式的需求,这对言论自由有着深远的影响。我认为,社会科学通过结合道德和政治认识论来减少不平等的明显努力,最终创造了一个新的分层体系。
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Society
Society Multiple-
CiteScore
1.30
自引率
11.10%
发文量
132
审稿时长
12 weeks
期刊介绍: Founded in 1962, Society enjoys a wide reputation as a journal that publishes the latest scholarship on the central questions of contemporary society. It produces six issues a year offering new ideas and quality research in the social sciences and humanities in a clear, accessible style. Society sees itself as occupying the vital center in intellectual and political debate. Put negatively, this means the journal is opposed to all forms of dogmatism, absolutism, ideological uniformity, and facile relativism. More positively, it seeks to champion genuine diversity of opinion and a recognition of the complexity of the world''s issues. Society includes full-length research articles, commentaries, discussion pieces, and book reviews which critically examine work conducted in the social sciences as well as the humanities. The journal is of interest to scholars and researchers who work in these broadly-based fields of enquiry and those who conduct research in neighboring intellectual domains. Society is also of interest to non-specialists who are keen to understand the latest developments in such subjects as sociology, history, political science, social anthropology, philosophy, economics, and psychology. The journal’s interdisciplinary approach is reflected in the variety of esteemed thinkers who have contributed to Society since its inception. Contributors have included Simone de Beauvoir, Robert K Merton, James Q. Wilson, Margaret Mead, Abraham Maslow, Richard Hoggart, William Julius Wilson, Arlie Hochschild, Alvin Gouldner, Orlando Patterson, Katherine S. Newman, Patrick Moynihan, Claude Levi-Strauss, Hans Morgenthau, David Riesman, Amitai Etzioni and many other eminent thought leaders. The success of the journal rests on attracting authors who combine originality of thought and lucidity of expression. In that spirit, Society is keen to publish both established and new authors who have something significant to say about the important issues of our time.
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