But Trilling complained of reductivism: the statistical method removed sex from religion, morality, social life — everything that, in the past, had given it meaning.
These marks conveyed responsibility, morality, social standing, being part of a community, all of the qualities that people all over the world define as civilized".
But you wouldn't know that from the stirring sermon delivered by the vicar's daughter, a homily on morality, social justice and fairness that could have come from Labour (bar the anti-immigration riffs).
State-of-the-art as a Premier League teenager, a young man in a young league, he has become absorbed by something equally modern, a new media struggle that touches upon elements of celebrity, morality, social communication and the commercial exploitation of a public image.
In passage after passage, advice is given that reverses conventional values (usu. in Confucian-Mohist discourse)—either rejecting the usual positive value term (benevolence, sages, morality, social activism) or motivating valuing the opposite (non-being, water, the female, the lower position etc).
He remained a dominant force in French intellectual life until his death in 1917, presenting numerous lectures and published works on a variety of topics, including the sociology of knowledge, morality, social stratification, religion, law, education, and deviance.
Thus, African humanitarian ethics spawns social morality, the morality of the common good, and the morality of duty that is so comprehensive as to bring within its compass what are referred to as moral ideals (such as love, virtue, compassion), which are considered supererogatory in Western ethics.
As part of the Augustan programme to restore traditional morality and social order, moral legislation attempted to regulate the conduct of men and women as a means of promoting "family values".
"Unlike lenders who seek to maximize profits irrespective of concerns about morality or social responsibility, individual homeowners are encouraged to behave in accordance with social and moral norms that require individuals keep promises and honor financial obligations".
In other words, there is only a clash between morality and social life and being authentic if the "true" self is regarded as fundamentally prone to anti-social behaviour.
The process of deciding who is a legitimate authority on particular topics (such as science) can be socially or politically determined; an individual's political affiliation and views about morality and social order, for example, strongly predict whom they consider to be a legitimate scientific expert (Kahan et al. 2011; Mooney 2011).
