Chance as a Cultural Event

The theoretical background of this paper deals with 'chance' regardes as a cultural event giving sense to unforeseeable, social and environmental happenings. Those who are struck by bad luck regard the event as fundamentally undeserved, which must be explained in some way. The notion of causality appears to be finalized to this end, in every culture, as well as to the sociale control through definition of what is reproachable. The meanings given to casual events, firmly rooted in uncertinty, try to reassure the community passing throuth its members.