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From Scapegoating to the Culture of Cruelty: (Mis)Managing Mimetic Desire and Violence in Late Modernity

Overview of attention for article published in Theory, Culture & Society, April 2024
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (89th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (60th percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
twitter
2 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
bluesky
1 Bluesky user

Readers on

mendeley
4 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
From Scapegoating to the Culture of Cruelty: (Mis)Managing Mimetic Desire and Violence in Late Modernity
Published in
Theory, Culture & Society, April 2024
DOI 10.1177/02632764241239594
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 4 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Lecturer 2 50%
Unspecified 1 25%
Unknown 1 25%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Unspecified 1 25%
Linguistics 1 25%
Social Sciences 1 25%
Unknown 1 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 September 2026.
All research outputs
#2,831,601
of 34,453,422 outputs
Outputs from Theory, Culture & Society
#165
of 1,559 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#39,144
of 380,873 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Theory, Culture & Society
#4
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,453,422 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,559 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 380,873 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 10 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 6 of them.