Aggrieved entitlement

Michael Kimmel, a masculinities scholar and sociologist, coined the term aggrieved entitlement in his (2013) book Angry White Men. He defines aggrieved entitlement as a feeling within privileged groups in America, "...that sense that those benefits to which you believed yourself entitled have been snatched away from you by unseen forces larger and more powerful", scapegoating minority communities.

Aggrieved entitlement is in earlier phases of conceptualization in the social sciences, but may have a positive association to constructs such as racism, transphobia, sexism, authoritarianism, and fear-based xenophobia and a negative association with feminist attitudes, compassionate love, and honesty-humility.

Aggrieved entitlement may also be connected to certain instances of right-wing terrorism, and violence against women or intimate partner violence.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Kimmel, Michael S. (2017). Angry white men: American masculinity at the end of an era. New York: Nation Books. ISBN 978-1-56858-961-9.
  2. ↑ Karasavva, Vasileia; Stewart, Jayme; Reynolds, Jaimie; Forth, Adelle (June 2025). "The Aggrieved Entitlement Scale: A New Measure for an Old Problem". Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 40 (11–12): 2906–2930. doi:10.1177/08862605241280973. ISSN 0886-2605. PMC 12048742. PMID 39344468.
  3. ↑ Kalish, Rachel; Kimmel, Michael (December 2010). "Suicide by mass murder: Masculinity, aggrieved entitlement, and rampage school shootings". Health Sociology Review. 19 (4): 451–464. doi:10.5172/hesr.2010.19.4.451. ISSN 1446-1242.
  4. ↑ Marganski, Alison J. (September 2019). "Making a murderer: The importance of gender and violence against women in mass murder events". Sociology Compass. 13 (9) e12730. doi:10.1111/soc4.12730. ISSN 1751-9020.
  5. ↑ Miller-Idriss, Cynthia (2025). Man up: the new misogyny and the rise of violent extremism. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-25760-0.