Social Context and the Rise of Anti-Heroes
Social Context and the Rise of Anti-Heroes

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the development and significance of social heroes, as well as the substance, functions and dichotomies of heroism, with particular view of those conditions in a social system which enables and facilitates mutual approximation, specificating symbolic and functional alternation of those diverse categories. The situation in Serbia during the last two decades was the object of attention in an attempt to strengthen the assumption that extreme turbulent processes in a society, followed by willing and substantial antisocial activity of certain favorably positioned groups, as well as by specific elaboration of social reality by those unfavorably positioned, ''ordinary'' people, thus enabled the conversion of classic antiheroes into social heroes. The role of the media in these processes was closely noted.

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