Technological change makes people less willing to accept injuries passively

Evidence

Americans file millions of lawsuits each year. This is not because Americans are unusually litigious; evidence suggests that the United States is not an overly litigious society. But in a complex, populous society like the United States, disputes are bound to arise. Moreover, advances in technology have transformed expectations of justice, making people less willing to accept injuries as fated or as “nobody’s fault.” — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1191

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to course themes on how social change shapes litigation demand and access to courts. — connects to: As shocks multiply in modernity, mechanical substitutes replace personal defense mechanisms — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 143; Technology can increase human weakness even as it increases power — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 822; Increases in trauma exposure marginally predicted higher use of approach coping the following year, suggesting individuals adopt new adaptive strategies after trauma. — Reciprocal Processes in Trauma and Coping: Bidirectional Effects Over a Four-Year Period

Broader Connections

• As shocks multiply in modernity, mechanical substitutes replace personal defense mechanisms #qualifies (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 143
• Technology can increase human weakness even as it increases power #complicates (0.72) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 822