Communitarianism
Definition
A society's density of interlocking obligations and mutual concern, which Braithwaite argues determines whether shame is available as an effective informal control at all.
Related terms
- Reintegrative Shaming
- Disapproval of a wrongful act that is expressed within relationships of respect for the offender, followed by gestures of forgiveness and reacceptance...
- Stigmatic Shaming
- Shaming that labels the offender rather than the act, degrades the person, and offers no ceremony of reacceptance, pushing them toward others...
- Desistance
- The process by which an individual stops offending, usually gradual rather than a single event, and typically tied to changes in routine,...
- Encounters with Goodness
- Ronel and Elisha's term for moments, relationships, or experiences of unearned kindness and moral regard that a person carries forward as a...
- Interdependency
- How much a person relies on and is relied upon by others for approval, resources and belonging, which determines whether shaming has...
- Positive Criminology
- A perspective, developed by Natti Ronel and Ety Elisha from 2011, that studies protective and prosocial forces, rather than only risk factors,...
- Reintegration Ceremony
- The community's active signal, once wrongdoing is acknowledged and some repair made, that the offender is welcomed back to ordinary status.
- Shame Management
- How an individual processes shame once it arrives: by acknowledging it and repairing harm, or by displacing it into denial, anger or...
Explained in these topics
- Reintegrative Shaming Theory and Positive Criminology
- Shaming Theory and Braithwaite (UGC-NET Unit IV)The density of interlocking obligations, family, work, neighbourhood and religious ties, across a whole society, which decides how far disapproval carries once...