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Cyber blame and social theory.
1York University, 220 McLaughlin College, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada.
SN Social Sciences
|October 25, 2021
Summary
Cybernetic causality offers a new framework for understanding social blaming, viewing it as a dynamic, multidirectional process. This perspective reveals how blame is socially constructed, modified, and eliminated through various performances and motivations.
Area of Science:
- Social Psychology
- Systems Theory
- Cybernetics
Background:
- Traditional models of causality often fail to capture the complexity of social interactions.
- Blaming is a pervasive social process with multifaceted expressions and underlying motivations.
Purpose of the Study:
- To introduce cybernetic causality as a novel lens for analyzing social blaming.
- To explore the dynamic and multidirectional nature of causal webs in blaming.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual analysis applying cybernetic principles to social blaming.
- Examination of blaming as a social construction process.
Main Results:
- Cybernetic causality reveals blame as a fluid, multidirectional web.
- Blaming involves social construction, including creation, modification, exacerbation, dissipation, and elimination.
- Performances of blaming can simultaneously attribute praise and condemnation.
Conclusions:
- Viewing blame through cybernetics illuminates its complex, dynamic social construction.
- This framework encourages a deeper understanding of social experience through fluid causality.
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