Problem
Over-simplification of social concepts
Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Other Names:
Misappropriation of social valuesCollapsed conceptualization
Trivialization of social values
False concreteness of societal concepts
Vulgarization of concepts
Nature:
Appropriating the articulation of a profound and necessary social, religious or cultural reality while reducing the meaning of the term to a facile social concept lends linguistic, social and symbolic credibility to the users of the word. An individual can use the term love or peace or religion and mean a very narrow and deceptive dimension of the term while implying its whole breadth of meanings. This process when used over and over again trivializes the word. The experience the word points to is left without a meaningful symbol to point to it and is then considered an inappropriate experience. Broader Problems:
Value erosionMisunderstandingOversimplificationAbusive exploitation of cultural heritage Narrower Problems:
Trivialization of loveTrivialization of peaceTrivialization of libertyTrivialization of equalityInappropriate understanding of progressExcessive portrayal of sex in the mediaLost covenantal understanding of sexualityQuantitative understanding of responsibilityInappropriate projection of values onto other cultures Strategies:
Providing social principles for behaviourSimplifying social conceptsTrivializing social valuesVulgarizing conceptsDisapproving of vulgarization of conceptsCollapsing conceptsBeing fallaciousUnderstanding false concreteness of societal concepts Subject(s):
Society → SocialCommerce → Property
Sociology → Sociology
Informatics, Classification → Classification
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
01.01.2000 – 00:00 CET