Morality in the Making of Sense and Self

ISBN-13: 9780190096045 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 272 str.

Postdoctoral Research F Jason (Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Recenzje

Please forget what you think you may know about the famous Milgram 'obedience' experiments, and especially what they have suggested about the phenomena of genocide and other atrocities understood as resulting from compliant populations bending to authority. This book revolutionizes our understanding of those issues and the more general matter of morality, suggesting that everyday actors may be more oriented to interaction and issues of reciprocity that sustain a sense of ethical selfhood than previously assumed. In superior-subordinate or other hierarchical relationships, such an orientation means that the potential for acts of resistance often becomes more paramount than does the probability for what Milgram called 'obedience.' Read this book and be encouraged!

O autorze

Matthew M. Hollander is Sociology Faculty at Marion Technical College (Marion, Ohio). He has authored or co-authored over 15 academic articles and chapters in social psychology, sociological theory, and health science. His race textbook Racial and Ethnic Diversity: A Sociological Introduction (2021) contributes to diversity education in central Ohio at the high school and two-year college levels. Jason Turowetz is Sociology Instructor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the co-author (with Douglas W. Maynard) of Autistic Intelligence: Interaction, Individuality, and the Challenges of Diagnosis (2022) and has authored or co-authored over 30 academic articles and chapters on the sociology of medicine and diagnosis, autism, the Milgram experiments, race, social psychology, and social theory.