"Many have criticized liberalism for being too individualist, but few have offered an alternative that goes beyond a vague affirmation of the need for community. In this entertaining book, written in dialogue form, Daniel Bell fills this gap, presenting and defending a distincti…
"Anthony Giddens is one of the most prominent and prolific sociologists living today. Lars Bo Kaspersen traces Giddens's work from the late sixties to the present day, covering all major parts of his sociological, social theoretical, and political project."--Jacket.
The Palgrave handbook of African social ethics
Traces how disabled people came to be viewed as biologically deviant. The eugenics era pioneered techniques that managed "defectives" through the application of therapies, invasive case histories, and acute surveillance techniques, turning disabled persons into subjects for a re…
Traces how disabled people came to be viewed as biologically deviant. The eugenics era pioneered techniques that managed "defectives" through the application of therapies, invasive case histories, and acute surveillance techniques, turning disabled persons into subjects for a re…
In Cultural Locations of Disability, Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell trace how disabled people came to be viewed as biologically deviant. The eugenics era pioneered techniques that managed "defectives" through the application of therapies, invasive case histories, and acu…
The trouble with the ways morality is used and how they impede social equality and social justice / by Elliot Turiel -- The moral judgment of the child reevaluated : heteronomy, early morality, and reasoning about social justice and inequalities / by Charles C. Helwig -- America…
"Is moral responsibility limited only to the consequences of overt individual actions? Or are individuals also responsible for attitudes, inaction, and the consequences of actions taken by their communities?"--BOOK JACKET. "In this original work, Larry May argues that even when …
"Our society's longstanding commitment to the liberty of conscience has become strained by our increasingly muddled understanding of what conscience is and why we value it. Too often we equate conscience with individual autonomy, and so we reflexively favor the individual in any…
Our society's longstanding commitment to the liberty of conscience has become strained by our increasingly muddled understanding of what conscience is and why we value it. Too often we equate conscience with individual autonomy, and so we reflexively favor the individual in any …