Moral psychology

According to Jewkes (2001: p.74), moral panic is referring to public and political reactions to minority or marginalized individual who appear to be threat to the social values and interest. Moral panic is mostly the consequences when by the media amplify the deviancy and public responses. The ‘bikie gangs’ is presented in a stylised and symbolic fashion by the mass media (Cohen, 2004: 1), fear against ‘bikie gangs is among the Australian society. General public concern about their safety on road

According to Stanley Cohen (1972, pg. 9), moral panics occur when a “condition, episode, person or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests”, and is useful for explaining the hysteria in Western society towards the ‘pandemic’ of HIV/AIDS. Sociologists argue that there was a social construction around it’s meaning and the way in which it was perceived caused by an apparent social anxiety or prejudice against homosexuals and other minority groups. This

this to prove that morals can be objectively true and do not have to change on a culture to culture basis. Cultural Relativism theorizes the nature of morality and whether moral truths are correct even if they are not agreed on across all cultures. The outline of the Cultural Differences Argument is that we argue from facts about the differences between cultural outlooks and then we conclude something about the status of morality from this argument . Overall each of these moral arguments is built

In The Parable of the Sower, author Octavia Butler realistically describes the dystopia of the U.S that is currently ruled by poverty, crime, and chaos. Lauren, the main protagonist, evolves and goes on a physical and emotional journey to create her own beliefs and prepare for life behind the wall. Lauren lives in the community of Robledo that is guarded by a wall that is meant to protect them from crime although it often fails to do so. Being the daughter of a Baptist, Lauren is challenged to conform

asymmetry and agency theory. The first fact and theory in explaining financial intermediation is the informational asymmetries argument. These asymmetries can be of an ex ante nature, generating adverse selection, they can be interim, generating moral hazard, and they can be of an ex post nature, resulting in auditing or costly state verification and enforcement. The informational asymmetries generate market imperfections, i.e. deviations from the neoclassical

earned money as a writer and a teacher, opening her own school in her grandmother’s house in 1821 and publishing a book in 1824 (Gollaher, 1991; Parry, 2006; Ritter & Wakelyn, 2014). According to Parry, Dix’s books often contained religious poetry and moral lessons. In her Conversations on Common Things; or Guide to Knowledge: With Questions, Dix targeted schoolteachers, providing tips and advocating that women must be educated just like men (2006). However, despite Dix’s strong encouragement of equal

What comes to our minds when we think about the sellers of second hand or used goods? I think most of us will say that they are untrusted, non-moral "sleazy", con men and disreputable. Perhaps this assessment is unfair for all the second hand or used goods' sellers but I think the experience proves that it is actually typical for most of them. At least the majority of people will say that. The question now is why? Why is this the conviction of many of us? This is because the seller always

In chapter 19 of the philosopher, Russ Shafer-Landau’s book, The Fundamentals of Ethics, he presents an overview of the moral theory of ethical relativism. Ethical relativism is the view that there is some moral truth and that truth is relative to each person or culture. The overarching moral principle can be broken down into ethical subjectivism and cultural relativism. The difference being ethical subjectivism says an act is morally acceptable or forbidden if an individual approves or disapproves

relativism is in determining which actions are good and which are bad. This is impossible because every person and culture, has a disagreeing opinion on good and bad. There isn’t one individual who can decide which morals are right and which are wrong. Cultural relativism states that correct moral standards are relative to cultures or societies (p. 293). Cultural relativism states that an action is morally acceptable because it is allowed by the guiding ideals of society in which it is performed, and immoral

Culture Relativism Culture Relativism is a contradictory theory for the explanation of the way we ought to live because the roots of the theory don’t give any explanation for what is right and wrong but instead only a means for right and wrong to be judged. By no fathom of the imagination can one contend that his or her own self ideas are correct there are certain bias that come with all judgments on the correct way to live, but if culture relativism stood true than it must be able to give