1 | Humans are social beings, and pretty much all works of fiction portray the social lives of them or [[HumanAliens reasonably similar entities]]. |
2 | |
3 | Thus, tropes about social interaction, social behaviour and social structure are so common that we don't list them all here individually. Instead, see the indexes to the right. |
4 | |
5 | Below follows two kinds of tropes: |
6 | * A) Those that are about social interaction/behavior/social structure without fitting any of the indexes to the right, and |
7 | * B) those that ''do'' fit at least one of those indexes, but contain a special focus on social structure... or lack thereof. |
8 | ---- |
9 | [[index]] |
10 | !!Tropes: |
11 | [floatboxright: |
12 | '''Categories:''' |
13 | + AuthorityTropes |
14 | + ClassRelationsIndex |
15 | + CrimeAndPunishmentTropes |
16 | + DirtySocialTricks |
17 | + DiscordTropes |
18 | + {{Empowerment}} |
19 | + FamilyTropes |
20 | + FriendshipTropes |
21 | + GenderAndSexualityTropes |
22 | + HumanRightsIssues |
23 | + ImmigrationAndDiasporaTropes |
24 | + IndebtedIndex |
25 | + TheJerkIndex |
26 | + LanguageTropes |
27 | + MilitaryAndWarfareTropes |
28 | + MoneyTropes |
29 | + MoralityTropes |
30 | + TheNationalIndex |
31 | + OccupationTropes |
32 | + OrganizationIndex |
33 | + PoliticsTropes |
34 | + APoliteIndex |
35 | + PhilosophyTropes |
36 | + PrejudiceTropes |
37 | + PsychologyTropes |
38 | + RaceTropes |
39 | + RebelTropes |
40 | + ReligionTropes |
41 | + RitualsAndCeremonies |
42 | + RivalryTropes |
43 | + ServantTropes |
44 | + ASlaveToTheIndex |
45 | + SocialEngineering |
46 | + TheseTropesAreEqual |
47 | + TropesAboutTaboos |
48 | + ValuesDissonance |
49 | + VictimhoodTropes |
50 | + ViolenceTropes |
51 | ] |
52 | * AbominationAccusationAttack: Accusing a person of doing or intending to do something horrible, such as murder or rape. |
53 | * AbuseMistake |
54 | * ActivistFundamentalistAntics: Religious fundamentalists who do nothing but annoy and harass everyone. |
55 | * AllTherapistsAreMuggles |
56 | * BothSidesHaveAPoint: Rather than portray either side of an argument as wrong or right, both sides' views are portrayed as being warranted and valid. |
57 | * CategoryTraitor: A person is considered a traitor to their kind for liking something that goes against their people's culture. |
58 | * TheChosenPeople |
59 | * CondescendingCompassion: Looking down on someone by mockingly stating you feel sorry for them for being inferior. |
60 | * CultureJustifiesAnything |
61 | * DefiledForever: The belief that losing one's virginity prior to marriage (often by rape) means that the person is tainted now and that no one would ever want them. |
62 | * FanFlattering |
63 | * FreedomFromChoice |
64 | * FutureSocietyPresentValues: A work doesn't age well because of how society has progressed since the work's original release. |
65 | * GodwinsLaw: Insinuating that someone or something is bad by comparing them to UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and the Nazis. |
66 | * HappinessIsMandatory: Being openly unhappy is taboo. |
67 | * HeteronormativeCrusader: A homophobic activist obsessed with combating what they view as sexual deviancy. |
68 | * HomosocialHeterosexuality |
69 | * TheHorseshoeEffect |
70 | * InternalizedCategorism |
71 | * LingeringSocialTensions: After a social division has nominally been resolved, some tension and conflict between the parties remains. |
72 | * TheMissingFaction |
73 | * ManufacturingVictims |
74 | * OriginalPositionFallacy |
75 | * OpinionOverride |
76 | * OutdatedHeroVsImprovedSociety |
77 | * PostMortemConversion |
78 | * PropertyOfLove |
79 | * RomanticizedAbuse: Abuse is made to look more attractive than it actually is. |
80 | * ScamReligion: A religion is founded solely to trick gullible people out of their money. |
81 | * SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny |
82 | * ShamCeremony |
83 | * SubterfugeJudo: When two parties know the imposing intentions of each other, but attempt to improvise in-the-moment ways of avoiding them. |
84 | * SonOfAWhore: A person who is the child of a prostitute and was fathered by one of their mother's clients. |
85 | * TooGoodForExploiters: When those who maliciously exploit a previous system want, at any cost, to keep that in place, instead of using a newer, better system. |
86 | * TroubledSympatheticBigot |
87 | * WithholdingTheCure |
88 | * WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: A group of people committing a genocide use more benign terms to describe the foul deed to sugarcoat the fact that they're killing an entire race. |
89 | * YourNormalIsOurTaboo |
90 | [[/index]] |
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