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Alasdair MacIntyre explores some central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argues that a proper understanding of human goods requires a rejection of these claims. In a wide-ranging discussion, he considers how normative and evaluative judgments are to be understood, how desire and practical reasoning are to be characterized, what it is to have adequate self-knowledge, and what part narrative plays in our understanding of human lives. He asks, further, what it would be to understand the modern condition from a neo-Aristotelian or Thomistic perspective, and argues that Thomistic Aristotelianism, informed by Marx's insights, provides us with resources for constructing a contemporary politics and ethics which both enable and require us to act against modernity from within modernity. This rich and important book builds on and advances MacIntyre's thinking in ethics and moral philosophy, and will be of great interest to readers in both fields.

Etikk --- Desire (Philosophy) --- Ethics. --- Philosophy and social sciences. --- Social sciences and philosophy --- Social sciences --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values

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When the State Meets the Street probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats: the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government's human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as soulless operators, these workers wield a significant margin of discretion and make decisions that considerably affect people's lives. By combining insights from political theory with ethnographic fieldwork as a receptionist in an urban anti-poverty agency, Bernardo Zacka shows us firsthand the predicament in which these public servants are caught up. Public policy consists of rules and regulations, but its implementation depends on how street-level bureaucrats interpret them and exercise discretionary judgment. These workers are expected to act as sensible moral agents in a working environment that is notoriously challenging and that conspires against them. Pressed to cope with the pressures of everyday work, they often and unknowingly settle for reductive conceptions of their responsibilities. Zacka examines the factors that contribute to this erosion of moral sensibility and what it takes to remain a balanced moral agent in such adverse conditions.--

Civil service --- Municipal officials and employees --- Local government --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Northeastern States --- Officials and employees. --- staten --- statlig ansatte --- etikk --- moral --- offentlig forvaltning --- offentlig administrasjon --- politikere --- rettferdighet

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Over the past decade there has been growing national and international concern about the impact of systems for the management of research ethics in the social sciences. In particular these procedural bureaucracies are seen as inappropriate to the ethical governance of social scientific research as they were designed around the challenges presented by biomedical research. This volume addresses and debates these concerns and identifies areas of common ground, core ethics principles and areas of particular concern in research ethics across the social sciences. This volume draws on proceedings and papers delivered at a Symposia series under the auspices of the UK Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS). This project aimed to advance the understanding and application of core ethics values to all aspects of social science research from inception and review through research design, data acquisition, analysis and management to dissemination and application, in collaboration with social science learned societies, research funders, higher education establishments, researchers and participants in research.

Social sciences and ethics. --- Ethics and social sciences --- Social ethics --- yrkesetikk --- forskningsetikk --- samfunnsforskning --- etikk --- samfunnsvitenskap --- ansvarlig forskning --- Professional ethics. Deontology --- Methods in social research (general) --- Social Science --- Society & social sciences. --- Research --- Social sciences --- General. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Research. --- Social science research --- Research ethics

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When we encounter a news story, why do we accept its version of events? A complicated set of cultural, structural, and technological relationships inform this interaction, and Journalistic Authority provides a relational theory for explaining how journalists attain authority. The book argues that authority is not a thing to be possessed or lost, but a quality of the connections between those laying claim to being an authority and those who assent to it. Matt Carlson examines the practices journalists use to legitimate their work: professional orientation, development of specific news forms, and the personal narratives they circulate to support a privileged social place. He then considers journalists' relationships with the audiences, sources, technologies, and critics that shape journalistic authority in the contemporary media environment. Carlson argues that journalistic authority is always the product of complex and variable relationships. By creating a schema to account for this complexity, he presents a new model for critiquing journalism while advocating for the norms and practices we want to be authoritative.

Journalism --- Journalistic ethics --- Digital media --- Electronic media --- New media (Digital media) --- Mass media --- Digital communications --- Online journalism --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Publicity --- Fake news --- History --- Objectivity --- journalistikk --- nyhetsjournalistikk --- digitale medier --- digital media --- etikk --- autoritet --- objektivitet --- Journalism - Objectivity - United States --- Journalistic ethics - United States --- Journalism - United States - History - 21st century --- Digital media - United States --- Presse --- Journalistes --- Journalisme --- Médias numériques --- Objectivité --- Déontologie --- Histoire --- Médias numériques --- Objectivité --- Déontologie

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"This collection engages environmental, ethical and cultural values perspectives to show how Design and Technology (D&T) Education actively contributes to the significant educational goal of attaining sustainable global futures. An international collection of authors representing all levels of education articulate how D&T research, curriculum theory, policy, and classroom practices can synergise to contribute positively to the education of children for sustainable global futures. The book offers a spectrum of theorised curriculum positions, political and policy analysis, and case studies of successful school practice. A key word in the title is that of contribution which is construed in several senses: first, of D&T as a vehicle for understanding the range of political and social values that arise with such a major educational challenge; second, of D&T as an agent of critical and practical action for students as global citizens; third, by taking global and multiple perspectives (rather than, say, Western or mono-cultural positions); and, fourth, by demonstrating D&T’s capacities for working in holistic and integrative cross-curricular ways. The authors show how students can not only learn about their potential as humans-as-designers but can also develop designerly capacities that enable them to contribute meaningfully in practical ways to their communities and to wider society, that is, as global citizens who can apply design capability in ethical ways that are respectful of peoples, cultures and environments alike.".

Education --- Social Sciences --- Education - General --- Theory & Practice of Education --- miljø --- bærekraft --- bærekraftig --- design --- etikk --- kultur --- teknologi --- fremtid --- utdanning --- Educational sociology. --- Aims and objectives. --- Education and sociology --- Social problems in education --- Society and education --- Sociology, Educational --- Aims and objectives of education --- Educational aims and objectives --- Educational goals --- Educational objectives --- Educational purposes --- Goals, Educational --- Instructional objectives --- Objectives, Educational --- Purposes, Educational --- Education. --- Education, general. --- Sociology --- Educational sociology --- Aims and objectives --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training