The culture of morality social development, context, and conflict

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Cover -- Half-title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- CHAPTER ONE Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO Striving for Community -- GOOD GENES AND GOOD FAMILIES -- GOOD HEARTS AND GOOD COMMUNITIES -- THE QUESTION OF RELATIVISM, COMMUNITY, AND CULTURAL CONTEXT -- ATTACHMENTS TO SOCIETY AND CULTURAL PATTERNS -- CHAPTER THREE Discontents Revisited -- IT IS ALWAYS THE GOOD OLD DAYS -- IS INDIVIDUALISM ALWAYS TO BLAME? -- THE TYPING OF SOCIETIES AND PERSONS -- STEPPING BACK? -- CHAPTER FOUR Social Judgments and Social Contexts -- CULTURAL PRACTICES AND SUBVERSION -- FREEDOMS, RIGHTS, AND SOCIAL CONTEXTS -- OBEDIENCE, CONFORMITY, HELPING OTHERS, AND SOCIAL CONTEXTS -- SOCIAL CONTEXTS AND SOCIAL CONSTRUALS -- CHAPTER FIVE The Development of Moral and Social Judgments -- SOCIAL INTERACTIONS, SOCIAL JUDGMENTS, AND PHILOSOPHICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- DEVELOPMENT AND OPPOSITION TO CULTURAL PRACTICES -- DISTINCTIONS IN JUDGMENTS: THE MORAL AND CONVENTIONAL -- PERSONAL CHOICES AND FREEDOMS -- CHAPTER SIX Social Thought and Social Action -- SOCIAL INTERACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT -- Moral and Nonmoral Judgments -- Children's Direct Experiences -- Varied Communications -- HOW PEOPLE THINK AND HOW PEOPLE ACT -- BEYOND CONSISTENCY: UNDERSTANDING JUDGMENTS AND ACTIONS -- OTHER SOURCES OF COMPLEXITY: PSYCHOLOGICAL ATTRIBUTIONS AND INFORMATIONAL ASSUMPTIONS -- AGREEMENT AND DISAGREEMENT IN SOCIAL JUDGMENT -- CHAPTER SEVEN Social Harmony and Social Conflict -- BOTH OPPOSITION AND SOCIABILITY -- WHAT IS IT THAT IS SHARED (SUPPOSEDLY)? -- GENDER: ANOTHER SOURCE OF COHESIVENESS AND CONSISTENCY? -- CHAPTER EIGHT Justice, Heterogeneity, and Cultural Practices -- MORALITY, POLITICAL ARRANGEMENTS, AND CULTURE -- SOCIAL ORDER AND AMBIGUITIES -- CHAPTER NINE Social Hierarchy, Subordination, and Human Capabilities -- ABUSES OF HIERARCHY.;The Culture of Morality examines how explanations of social and moral development inform our understandings of morality and culture. People universally develop judgments that entail deep understandings of issues of welfare, justice, and rights, and such judgments stand alongside people's conceptions of social systems and realms of personal choice. Drawing on different cultures, the author shows that people in positions of lesser power in the social hierarchy, such as women and minorities, often oppose cultural arrangements and work to subvert and transform the system. Generalizations often made regarding the cultural sources or morality in traditions and general orientations like individualism and collectivism serve to obscure the heterogeneous nature of people's judgments and interactions. Analyses of the moral and social problems faced in many societies require recognition of people's multiple moral, social, and personal goals and of the ways social arrangements provoke opposition from those treated unfairly.