Magization

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Magization means first of all to explain a process with the help of a concept of magic .

In sociology , magization is conceptually represented on the dimension of the rituality of social change , where its counterpart is “ secularization ”. Wherever (scientific, secular) "secularized" causal explanations do not adequately explain a change , "magical" additional explanations are regularly sought ( "besides, today I got up with my left foot first", "you don't whistle on board a sailing ship" ) . Magization is high in almost all traditional societies; B. in propaganda or advertising in words and images.

The sociology of disaster takes a high "Magisierung" as a feature to disasters based on their causal attributions of rational ( "secularized") expectable and incurred great risks to differentiate, so of foreseeable major bankruptcies , lost decision to slaughter or 'reasonable' revolutions . Accordingly, “catastrophes” are always understood with very demonized causes ( “ God has punished”, “nature strikes back”, “my luck has left me” etc. ). Correspondingly, the responsive actions of those affected become magical ; they 'discover God' and repent , blame others (their own kind or strangers) and the like. v .a. m. ( See also the scapegoat .)

literature

  • Lars Clausen : Tausch , Munich (Kösel) 1978
  • Lars Clausen, Elke M. Geenen , Elísio Macamo: Horrible social processes. Theory and Empirical Disaster , Münster (LIT) 2003