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Scientific american is the essential guide to the most awe inspiring advances in science and technology explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives. Some sociologists argue that victimhood is a social construction an identity or label that is created and can become a master status in the same way that deviant can similarly society can fail to see someone as a victim because they do not conform to an idealised image of a victim. Such constructions often do not reflect the realities of human experience and a growing scholarship on complex victims challenges simplistic portrayals of victims as always separate and mutually exclusive from perpetrators this chapter explores narratives of victimhood in northern ireland which fracture narrow constructions of the victim. Victimhood is a culture where an individuals status as a victim elevates him or her to the moral high ground its hallmarks are taking offense in microaggressions shouting down controversial