Interdependency
Definition
How much a person relies on and is relied upon by others for approval, resources and belonging, which determines whether shaming has any grip on them.
Related terms
- Communitarianism
- A society's density of interlocking obligations and mutual concern, which Braithwaite argues determines whether shame is available as an effective informal control...
- Reintegration Ceremony
- The community's active signal, once wrongdoing is acknowledged and some repair made, that the offender is welcomed back to ordinary status.
- Reintegrative Shaming
- Disapproval of a wrongful act that is expressed within relationships of respect for the offender, followed by gestures of forgiveness and reacceptance...
- Shame Management
- How an individual processes shame once it arrives: by acknowledging it and repairing harm, or by displacing it into denial, anger or...
- Stigmatic Shaming
- Shaming that labels the offender rather than the act, degrades the person, and offers no ceremony of reacceptance, pushing them toward others...