The Culture of Morality: Social Development, context and conflict

Sobre el libro The Culture of Morality: Social Development, context and conflict de Elliot Turiel publicado por Cambridge UP al 2002:

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. Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Striving for community; 3. Discontents revisited; 4. Social judgments and social contexts; 5. The development of moral and social judgments; 6. Social thought and social action; 7. Social harmony and social conflict; 8. Justice, heterogeneity, and cultural practices; 9. Social hierarchy, subordination, and human capabilities; 10. Perspectives on cultural practices: more than one; 11. Subversion in everyday life; 12. Conclusion.