Social goodness : the ontology of social norms / Charlotte Witt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Witt, Charlotte, 1951- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social norms.

Social values.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

We are all immersed in a sea of social norms, but they are sometimes tricky to observe with any clarity. They are often invisible to us and emerge only when they are not observed. Social norms are important to understand because they are both limiting of our freedom, such as gendered and racialized norms, and at the same time the very conditions of our agency. 'Social Goodness' presents an original theory of the normativity or normative 'oomph' of social role norms by developing an artisanal model for human social normativity.

Contents:

Cover

Social Goodness

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. The Great Puzzle of Social Norms

2. Social Role Normativity: Internalism and Externalism

3. The Artisanal Model

4. Social Norms and Social Reality

5. Habituation, Imitation, and the Critical Self

6. Self-​Creation and Transformation

7. The Artisanal Model and Social Hierarchy

Epilogue: Social Roles and Oppression

Select Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 26, 2023).

ISBN:

0-19-757481-5

0-19-757482-3

0-19-757480-7

OCLC:

1382692700