ETHICAL/SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Ethical and Social Responsibility



Ethical and Social Responsibility

Is there any such thing as morality, or is it just a matter of what you can get away with?

When one deals with the morality in a sociological context, it is important to distinguish between the normative and descriptive ethics. The former is concerned with how standards can be justified morally or rationally, and with the question of what is morally right or wrong. The descriptive morality other hand, describes the "rules of action and objectives, which are in a New Story or company effectively action-guiding or binding" (Churchland, Smith, 2011). Whether this actually applicable rules of action morally "correct" is not the subject of descriptive morality and therefore not subject to the sociology. If the sociology is concerned with the correctness of moral standards (and unfortunately this happens again and again) and compares different moralities judgmental, they exceed their competence or their terms of reference and is not credible. This is because; sociology actually delivers the value-free descriptions (Churchland, Smith, 2011).

Weber, Simmel and Habermas are concerned with the morality of respect, on a meta-level, as they deal mainly with moral principles, or understood. Their basic ideas are briefly described below.

Max Weber employed in the Collected Essays on the sociology of religion in detail with the "imprinting styles of business by the religious ethos of the supporting layers”, both the Christian and the non-Christian context. Dobert says that all these religious sociological texts can be read as moral-sociological texts because historically morality was always part of religion. Since in this work, however, specifically around the concept of morality is, and because a comparison of the various religions and their impact on social and economic order would be too extensive in this project, only the morality of direct relevance to more general points out caught. For example, Weber's notions of value rationality and mass of a virtuoso's ethics, and the ritualistic magic of ethics and the law and ethic are explained in more detail (Churchland, Smith, 2011).

Simmel's discussion of morality is more moral philosophy for long stretches as sociologically influenced and relevant. Of interest to the sociology are safe from all his statements about moral obligation, altruism, merit and guilt and the relationship of objective standards and freedom of the individual (Churchland, Smith, 2011).

Habermas emphasizes in its universal pragmatic theory of action out those fundamental (moral) norms that make communicative action (and thus also any other action) at all possible (Churchland, Smith, 2011).

Why should I be moral?

Morality is by definition the product of a social, rather than an individual and not the invention of the individual. This means that there is morality as the product of relationships between people in society and respect, too, just the same relationships (norms of human behavior in relation to each other) (Harris, Sam, 2010). Accordingly, the criteria of validity of certain norms of morality are the interests of the survival of society, not the interests of the individual. Moral - this, in particular, purposeful human behavior within society, ...