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  • Moral Culture

  • If sociology is about "society" must it not also be about morality? The identification between sociology and morality was clear cut in the 19th and early 20th centuries: Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Spencer and Veblen all dealt with moral issues. However, now the connections between sociology and moral concerns have become more tenuous. In this volume, the author examines what it means to be moral in contemporary social and cultural life. He takes the step of exploring what the massacres in the Balkans and Rwanda, the Holocaust and the slaughter of Vietnamese peasants at My Lai might mean to the relatively safe and secure individuals in the West. Increasingly in the West horror is experienced only through television and cinema screens and Tester looks at the moral possibilities and implications of this, and what it means to those who are its consumers. Tester also addresses the pressing concern of whether or not this is a time of moral decay. He uses a range of literature to explore these questions and develops his account around debates raised by Arendt, Simmel, Riesman and Bauman.
  • ISBN-13: 9780803974869 (Hardback)
  • Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS
    Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
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    AUD $530.00
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  • Local release date: 19/05/1997
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  • Categories: Cultural studies [JFC]Anthropology [JHM]Political science & theory [JPA]
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