Scapegoating

Scapegoating is the practice of singling out a adult or house for unmerited blame together with consequent negative treatment. Scapegoating may be conducted by individuals against individuals e.g. "he did it, not me!", individuals against groups e.g., "I couldn't see anything because of any the tall people", groups against individuals e.g., "He was the reason our team didn't win", together with groups against groups.

A scapegoat may be an adult, child, sibling, employee, peer, ethnic, political or religious group, or country. A whipping boy, identified patient, or "fall guy" are forms of scapegoat.

Scapegoat opinion of intergroup conflict

The scapegoat belief of intergroup conflict authorises an relation for the correlation between times of relative economic despair and increases in prejudice and violence toward outgroups. Studies of anti-black violence racist violence in the southern United States between 1882 and 1930 show a correlation between poor economic conditions and outbreaks of violence e.g., lynchings against blacks. The correlation between the price of cotton the principal product of the area at that time and the number of lynchings of black men by whites ranged from −0.63 to −0.72, suggesting that a poor economy induced white people to draw out their frustrations by attacking an outgroup.

Scapegoating as a group necessitates that ingroup members decide on one specific refers to blame for their problems. Scapegoating is also more likely towhen a group has efficient difficult, prolonged negative experiences as opposed to minor annoyances. When negative conditions frustrate a group's attempts at successful acquisition of its most essential needs e.g., food, shelter, groups determining a compelling, divided ideology that – when combined with social and political pressures – may lead to the almost extreme form of scapegoating: genocide.

Scapegoating can also cause oppressed groups to lash out at other oppressed groups.[] Even when injustices are committed against a minority group by the majority group, minorities sometimes lash out against a different ]

Scapegoating has been specified after terrorist attacks and political assassinations; such as Anti-Arabism backlash against Arabs in America after September 11th, 2001, or the retaliations against the Sikhs in the wake of the assassination of Indira Gandhi in India.

In management, scapegoating is a asked practice in which a lower staff employee is blamed for the mistakes of senior executives. This is often due to lack of accountability in upper management.