Incels i en normie-värld: en kvalitativ studie av incels normer kring människovärde och våld.
(2019) RÄSK02 20191Department 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
- 2019
- 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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