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Incels i en normie-värld: en kvalitativ studie av ​incels​ normer kring människovärde och våld.

Eriksson, Thea LU (2019) RÄSK02 20191
Department of Sociology of Law
Abstract
The term incel has recently been brought up in media in correlation to the terror attack in Toronto, Canada, in 2018. The perpetrator, Minassian, described his motivation for the crime in a facebook status where he referenced websites connected to the incel movement, which is a group of men, who blame today's society and women for their involuntary celibacy. Due to the strong correlation between the attack and incels the aim of this dissertation will be to study the norms on two incel platforms, www.reddit.com/r/braincels but mainly www.incels.co. Through norms about the value of human lives and violence a background, through social context, to the crime committed can be presented. In order to understand the social context on the incel... (More)
The term incel has recently been brought up in media in correlation to the terror attack in Toronto, Canada, in 2018. The perpetrator, Minassian, described his motivation for the crime in a facebook status where he referenced websites connected to the incel movement, which is a group of men, who blame today's society and women for their involuntary celibacy. Due to the strong correlation between the attack and incels the aim of this dissertation will be to study the norms on two incel platforms, www.reddit.com/r/braincels but mainly www.incels.co. Through norms about the value of human lives and violence a background, through social context, to the crime committed can be presented. In order to understand the social context on the incel platforms dual system-theory and theory about human nature will be applied. The results show that according to Agnews (2011) theory on human nature all components to create criminal behaviour exist on the website, as well as a strong anti-feminist world view. Incels also show little to no value to their own lives, along with the lives of women and normies, people who follow the norms of a modern society. (Less)
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author
Eriksson, Thea LU
supervisor
organization
course
RÄSK02 20191
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Gendered violence, misogyny, social media, incel
language
Swedish
id
8995518
date added to LUP
2019-10-10 09:34:21
date last changed
2019-10-10 09:34:21
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  abstract     = {{The term incel has recently been brought up in media in correlation to the terror attack in Toronto, Canada, in 2018. The perpetrator, Minassian, described his motivation for the crime in a facebook status where he referenced websites connected to the incel movement, which is a group of men, who blame today's society and women for their involuntary celibacy. Due to the strong correlation between the attack and incels the aim of this dissertation will be to study the norms on two incel platforms, www.reddit.com/r/braincels but mainly www.incels.co. Through norms about the value of human lives and violence a background, through social context, to the crime committed can be presented. In order to understand the social context on the incel platforms dual system-theory and theory about human nature will be applied. The results show that according to Agnews (2011) theory on human nature all components to create criminal behaviour exist on the website, as well as a strong anti-feminist world view. Incels also show little to no value to their own lives, along with the lives of women and normies, people who follow the norms of a modern society.}},
  author       = {{Eriksson, Thea}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Incels i en normie-värld: en kvalitativ studie av ​incels​ normer kring människovärde och våld.}},
  year         = {{2019}},
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