Up Front With Valerie and Joe: Fair Game and Other Stories of Reprisal

摘要

The movie Fair Game (Butterworth et al, 2010) is a fact-based political thriller that calls attention to a process of turning respectable members of established institutions, who are performing their roles properly, into excluded deviants. The result of this transformation may be the creation of a new group initiating its own subculture. The story of Robin Hood offers an example of the way such a new subculture can become traditional lore in a modern society. There are many ways that subcultural groups form and keep operating. They may be identified and isolated by the main group in society, based on inborn characteristics, such as race; they may organize themselves around a different set of values or practices and separate themselves from the main societal group, such as religious movements. Or they may be differentiated unexpectedly by the larger group and come to recognize themselves as a group only in the reflected light of their treatment by others. Changes in the familiar institutions of social life, arising from history or circumstance, may suddenly produce new responses to long-established conduct.