| 释义 |
scapegoating|ˈskeɪpgəʊtɪŋ|
[f. scapegoat + -ing1.]
The action or practice of making a scapegoat of someone; spec. in Psychol., aggressively punitive behaviour directed for whatever reason against other (weaker) persons or groups.
1943Veltfort & Lee in Jrnl. Abnormal & Social Psychol. Clin. Suppl. XXXVIII. 138 Scapegoating is a phenomenon wherein some of the aggressive energies of a person or group are focused upon another individual, group, or object. 1950T. Adorno et al. Authoritarian Personality xi. 409 Lack of insight into one's own short⁓comings and the projection of one's own weaknesses and faults onto others..probably represents the essential aspect of..scapegoating. 1962Listener 7 June 1002/2 Speaking of scapegoating in new housing blocks, she tells of patients who have actually been robbed finding it difficult to obtain a hearing because they were suspected of paranoid delusions. 1977C. Husband in H. Giles Lang., Ethnicity & Intergroup Relations ix. 234 The intervention of Powell at a singularly propitious moment..propelled the already vigorous scapegoating process into an unmanageable level. |