By the 1940s, educators, psychiatrists and popular opinion-makers were assailing the idealization of mothers; in their view, women should stop seeing themselves as guardians of societal and familial morality and content themselves with being, in the self-deprecating words of so many 1960s homemakers, "just a housewife".
-Celebrities: They're just like us, if we constantly acted upon our base impulses without regard for morality or societal constraints.
Most values such as Justice, Morality, and Societal Welfare are all ultimately determined by whether or not the revolutionary action helps or hurts the criterion.
Share a dictionary definition of "scandal" (according to WordSmyth, "scandal" means: 1. an action, situation, or behavior that seriously offends societal standards of propriety or morality. 2. the damage or disgrace that results from such action or behavior; disrepute).
We can, however, assess professionalism by considering its individual (attributes, capacities, and behaviours), inter-personal (interactions with other individuals and with contexts) and societal dimensions (social responsibility and morality, political, and economic concerns), and the interactions amongst these dimensions [ 2].
And if a person believed that morality originated only in societal sanction — regardless of whether that position was true — he or she would view morality as nothing more than an instrumental good to his or her own selfish ends.
When the pope speaks about the Christian Gospel, as he does on Wednesdays and Sundays in St. Peter's Square, through Encyclicals and in less formal settings, he often relates the religious and spiritual message not only to personal morality and salvation, but also to societal issues and political life.
In general, one might look at many of the theorists prior to Austin as exemplifying an approach that was more "community-oriented"—law as arising from societal values or needs, or expressive of societal customs or morality.
Here are some examples of values to consider when writing out your list: Justice (personal and societal), life/health (including reproductive and mental health), national/cultural identity, freedom, security, morality, human rights, human responsibilities, imperialism, socialism, capitalism, technology, environment, animal rights and welfare, and equality/tolerance.
Quasi-hegemonic societal discourses act on wealthy entrepreneurs, urging them to embrace particular moralities by assuming 'publicly available "personas" or social-identities' (Watson, 2008: 12008
