| 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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