Moral Collectives: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Insights

✍ Scribed by Stefan Joller (editor), Marija Stanisavljević (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 208
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Whether terrorist attacks, refugee or financial crises - the challenges of globalized modernity expose those areas that Durkheim described as anomic and whose processing still illustrates the central position of moral communication. There is some evidence to suggest that progressive functional differentiation does not erode morality, but actually promotes a remoralization of society through increasing communicative networking. Wherever grievances come to light and it is not foreseeable how they could be satisfactorily resolved in the modus operandi, morality provides a promising instrument which, in the form of moral collectives, is able to permeate everyday life and shape society. In this sense, the anthology is dedicated to a theoretical as well as empirical analysis of morality, which takes shape as a genuinely social quantity via moral collectives.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

✦ Table of Contents

Knowledge, Communication and Society
Contents
The Polymorphism of Morality: An Introduction
References
Society Without a Dream?
References
On the Competition of Moral Collectives
1 Morality in the Context of Social Differentiation
2 Challenges from the Perspective of the Sociology of Knowledge
3 The Programmatic Synthesis of Moral Collectives
References
Information Versus Fake News. On the Post-Normative Moralization of the Mass Media
1 Introduction: There´s Life in the Old Media Yet
2 Political Public Sphere and Normativity
3 Positioning, Not Just Informing: Political Deliberation in the Mass Media Constellation
4 Counterfactual Norms and Their Weakening Through Moralization
5 On the Way to a Post-Normative Political Culture?
References
Scandals and Morals
1 The Moral Explosive Power of Scandals
2 Moral Collectives in Scandals
2.1 Moral Collectives of Ideology and Religion
2.2 Moral Collectives of the Public
2.3 Moral Collectives of Privacy
2.4 Moral Collectives of Justice
2.5 Moral Collectives of Politics
3 Scandals and the Blind Spots of Moral Collectives
References
Convention Theory, Surveys and Moral Collectives
1 Introduction
2 Convention Theory
3 Measurement and Moral Collectives
4 Division of Labor, Surveys as Linked Situations and the Differentiation of the Survey Field
5 Saturation, Survey Climate and Big Data
References
On This Side of the Principle Solutions. Moral Responsibility of Social Science Researchers in the Context of Scientific Under...
1 Introduction from the Fiction of Everyday Research Life
2 Three Morals as a Problem of Action in the Reality of Everyday Research Life
2.1 Scientific Standards
2.2 Moral Characteristics of the Field
2.3 Societal Commitment
3 Moral Responsibility
References
Deception and Morality in Charismatic Pentecostal Churches in Kenya
1 Charismatic Pentecostal Churches in Kenya
2 Experiences and Rumours as Moral Communication About Genuine and Illusory Spiritual Rebirths
3 Scandals as Moral Communication About Pastors
4 The End of the Representation: Moral Communication and Sanction
References
The Middle as a Classless Place? How Young People Moralise and Justify Precarisation
1 Moral Classes: A Theoretical Framework
2 Moral Boundaries
2.1 Moral Boundaries Upwards: Keeping It Real´´ 2.2 Moral Boundaries Downwards:The Typical Asocial Hartz IV Recipients´´ Are Fucking Themselves to Blame´´ 2.3 The Refusal to Moralise:I Hate Such Stratified Thinking´´
2.4 The Refusal of Moralization as a Form of Class Consciousness
3 The Striving Towards and the Idealization of the Middle
3.1 Being Precarious Is Not So Bad´´: Trivialisation of Precariousness 3.2It´s Just a Phase´´: Precariousness as a Transitional Phenomenon
3.3 Precarious Doesn´t Matter´´: Delimitation of Precariousness via Post-material Attitudes 4 Discussion ReferencesThey Totally Lied to Us About That´´. Morality as a Motif in the Memory and Visual Reception of the Holocaust
1 Introduction
2 Methodology
2.1 Theoretical Preliminary Considerations
2.2 Data Collection: Group Discussion on a Visual Conversation Stimulus
2.3 Interpretation: Sequence Analysis and Ideal-Typical Case Reconstruction
3 Second Generation West: The `Pelikan´ Group
3.1 Case Portrait
3.2 Case Categories
And everything is running towards this, towards this picture there´´ - symbolic closing of the empty spacethey totally lied (to us)´´ - moral conclusions
3.3 Summary of the Case Structure: Type and Reception
4 Summary and Outlook
References
Good Pictures - Bad Pictures: Image Ethics of Moral Collectives
1 The Moralization of Everyday Life and the Everyday Life of Moralizing
2 Sociology of Morality
3 Image Judgements and Image Practices in Moral Collectives: A Case Study
4 An Extra-moral Conclusion
References