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Morality USA
- Title
- Morality USA / Ellen G. Friedman, Corinne Squire.
- Author
- Friedman, Ellen G., 1944-
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | HN90.M6 F75 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Squire, Corinne, 1958-
- Description
- x, 295 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- Morality USA traces our ethical conundrum to rapid social change and events that have acted as moral breaks with the past. The Holocaust, the Kennedy and King assassinations, the civil rights and antiwar movements of the sixties, feminist and gay rights campaigns, Watergate, the Hill-Thomas hearings, and the Clinton sex scandals have progressively eroded confidence in moral universals. Stripped of grand moral narratives, people are left with mere cost-benefit analyses of their ethical options or with only a personal sense of right and wrong, a privatized moral order.
- Alternative Title
- Morality U.S.A.
- Subject
- 1980-2020
- Social values > United States
- Moral conditions
- Social conditions
- Social values
- Soziokultureller Wandel
- Wertwandel
- Ethik
- Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
- Moral
- Sozialethik
- Wertordnung
- Sociale normen
- Sociale waarden
- Social values > United States
- United States > Moral conditions
- United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020
- United States
- USA
- United States > Moral conditions
- United States > Social conditions > 1980-
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-280) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Strangers to ourselves : movies, books, art -- 2. Justice post-tawana -- 3. Family -- 4. body -- 5. P.C. -- 6. Lite.
- ISBN
- 0816627487
- 9780816627486
- 0816627495
- 9780816627493
- LCCN
- 98002999
- OCLC
- ocm38475483
- 38475483
- SCSB-8970842
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library