AIDS and the "life-style" concepts in the context of the American culture. : The cultural analysis of the American "individualistic" culture just before the emergence of AIDS

ベイコク ブンカ ニオケル エイズ ト ライフスタイル ガイネン エイズ シュツゲン チョクゼン ノ ベイコク コジン シュギ ブンカ ノ ブンセキ

オオサカ ダイガク ニンゲン カガクブ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

英語

「ライフスタイル」概念

米国「個人主義」文化

文化分析

「犠牲者非難」

AIDS

"life-style" concept

the American "individualistic" culture

cultural analysis

victim-blaming

This paper attempts to grasp the cultural situations in the U.S.A. just before the emergence of AIDS. It means to understand what happened to the American “individualistic” culture in the 1960-70's. This is the preparation for the study that analyzes AIDS, especially “victim-blaming”, under the present circumstances. For the paper's purposes, it is essential to pay attention to the relationships between AIDS and the “life-style” concepts, because it is to realize the role of these new concepts in the period showed the radical interpretations of “individualism”. So the paper scrutinizes two 'life-style' concepts, the first is of "self-expression” and the second of the Public Health , and their cultural-historical backgrounds. These new concepts have the particularity, because they were constructed, interpreted and recognized in the world view and ethos that the American “individualistic” culture originally has. So the “victim-blaming” that has emerged in the U.S.A. through these concepts after AIDS takes on the particularity. And the cultural analysis in the paper will clarify that the "life-style" concepts, and the "victim-blaming" too, emerged not in the cultural vacuum, but in the "culture".

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