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People talk in everyday life about "moral values" and define themselves in moral ways, but social scientists do not pay enough attention to these issues. This book highlights the often-neglected moral aspect of the self, and offers a theory underlying the maintenance of a moral …
"People have strong moral beliefs about right and wrong, yet commonly act contrary to those beliefs. Most of us, at some time or another, have crossed a moral line and yet still view ourselves as moral and have a clean conscience. From intimate relationships to national politics…
The authors examine ten historic or contemporary figures, and the core leadership virtues that combines to make them figures of inspiration and influence.
Most of us are not virtuous people, but neither are we vicious. Instead, our characters are decidedly mixed, and much more complex than we might have thought. Christian Miller presents an account of moral character based on mixed character traits. He explores how most of us are …
This collection of essays examines the importance of moral panic as a routine feature of everyday life, and important for identity formation, national security, industrial risk, and character formation.
"Love's Uncertainty explores the hopes and anxieties of urban, middle-class parents in contemporary China. Combining long-term ethnographic research with textual analyses of popular childrearing manuals, television dramas, and government documents, the author describes the munda…
"This book is an accessible, research-based introduction to behavioral ethics. Often ethics education is incomplete because it ignores how and why people make moral decisions. But using exciting new research from fields such as behavioral psychology, cognitive science, and evolu…
