Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrina Hutchison ◽  
Catriona Mackenzie ◽  
Marina Oshana
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Social Epistemology ◽  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
Relational Autonomy ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Philosophical Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
Scant Attention

This introduction distinguishes ways the social dimensions of moral responsibility have been investigated in recent philosophical literature: some theories highlight the interpersonal dimensions of moral responsibility practices; some explicate the interlocutive properties of morally reactive exchanges; while others seek to explain the role of the social environment in scaffolding agency. Despite the rise of social approaches, philosophers have paid scant attention to the implications of inequalities of power for theorizing about moral responsibility. The remainder of the introduction articulates a set of problems posed by contexts of structural injustice for theories of moral responsibility and highlights the relevance of recent work in feminist philosophy on relational autonomy and social epistemology for understanding and addressing these problems. The introduction notes the overlaps and differences between the concepts of autonomy and moral responsibility and offers preliminary reflections on how debates about relational autonomy might bear on social theories of moral responsibility.

scholarly journals Social Dimensions of Moral Responsibility

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Structural Inequality ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Moral Environment ◽  
Philosophical Debates ◽  
And Control ◽  
Neil Levy

Philosophical theorizing about moral responsibility has recently taken a “social” turn, marking a shift in focus from traditional metaphysical concerns about free will and determinism. Yet despite this social turn, the implications of structural injustice and inequalities of power for theorizing about moral responsibility remain surprisingly neglected in philosophical literature. Recent theories have attended to the interpersonal dynamics at the heart of moral responsibility practices, and the role of the moral environment in scaffolding agential capacities. However, they assume an overly idealized conception of agency and of our moral responsibility practices as reciprocal exchanges between equally empowered and situated agents. The essays in this volume systematically challenge this assumption. Leading theorists of moral responsibility, including Michael McKenna, Marina Oshana, and Manuel Vargas, consider the implications of oppression and structural inequality for their respective theories. Neil Levy urges the need to refocus our analyses of the epistemic and control conditions for moral responsibility from individual to socially extended agents. Leading theorists of relational autonomy, including Catriona Mackenzie, Natalie Stoljar, and Andrea Westlund develop new insights into the topic of moral responsibility. Other contributors bring debates about moral responsibility into dialogue with recent work in feminist philosophy, and topics such as epistemic injustice, implicit bias and blame. Collectively, the essays in this volume reorient philosophical debates about moral responsibility in important new directions.

Mute Cries: Louis Althusser Between Roberto Álvarez Ríos and Wifredo Lam

ARTMargins ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-109
Author(s):  
Bécquer Seguín
Keyword(s):  
Lacanian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Louis Althusser ◽  
Aleatory Materialism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
Political Milieu ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Structural Marxism

This introductory essay examines the role of two articles on the Cuban painters Roberto Álvarez Ríos and Wifredo Lam, “A Young Cuban Painter Before Surrealism: Álvarez Ríos” (1962) and “Lam” (1977), in the French Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser's writing on art. It argues that these largely ignored articles offer snapshots of two key shifts in Althusser's thought: his transition, during the early 1960s, from Hegelian Marxism to structural Marxism, and, during the late 1970s, from structural Marxism to so-called aleatory materialism. It contextualizes the articles in the social and political milieu of French philosophy during the 1960s and 70s and shows how his articles on the Cuban painters, specifically, and art, more generally, are largely concerned with contemporary developments in the third world, a subject that receives scant attention elsewhere in his work. The articles not only register Althusser's reflections on Lacanian psychoanalysis, the nature of language, and the philosophy of history, but also reveal that his connections with Latin America to exceed mere questions of intellectual reception.

Family Dynamics and Social Practice Theories: An Investigation of Daily Practices Related to Food, Mobility, Energy Consumption, and Tourism

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Françoise Bartiaux ◽  
Luis Reátegui Salmón
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Internet Survey ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
Green Practices ◽  
Domestic Power

Based on empirical data on “green” practices according to household size, this article questions the role, if any, given to close personal relationships by social practice theories in sustaining or not daily life practices. Data are mainly drawn from an Internet survey conducted in Belgium in 2006 by WWF-Belgium on daily practices, related to food, energy consumption, mobility, and tourism. Results show that smaller households carry out more numerous “green” practices than larger ones. The concluding discussion underlines the relevance of including social interactions—namely within the household—into the conceptual framework derived from the social theories of practices, to take into account the rearticulating role of social interactions and domestic power claims when carrying out a practice or a set of practices, and when changing it.

The Social and Political Dimensions of Co-operative Enterprises

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor A. Pestoff
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Post Industrial

The role of co-operatives as providers of goods and services, as in the industrial age, more recently became overshadowed by their potential as providers of social services. In the post-industrial or service society, co-operatives are found in a growing number of countries. Co-operative enterprises have a unique capacity to mobilize social capital and provide relational goods that neither public nor private for-profit providers demonstrate. This brings co-operative enterprises full-circle in terms of their historical political role as democratic pioneers, since they can now also contribute to reducing the growing democratic deficit. This chapter explores the political and social dimensions of co-operative enterprises that pursue multiple goals. It also introduces a dynamic model of co-operative development that can be fruitfully employed for analysing the social and political dilemmas faced by co-operative enterprises.

Ecological psychology as social psychology?

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 813-826
Author(s):  
Harry Heft
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Ecological Psychology ◽  
Ecological Perspective ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Behavior Settings ◽  
Conceptual Nature ◽  
Perception Action

Several articles published in this journal over a number of years have examined the social dimensions of Gibsonian ecological psychology. The present paper picks up several of their themes, with an emphasis on the social developmental consequences of individuals participating in community structures and engaging the affordances that support them. From this perspective, the situated nature of activity in everyday settings is examined, which in turn highlights the role of places as higher order emergent eco-psychological structures (or behavior settings) in everyday life. Moreover, ecological psychology’s discovery of occluding edge effects, which demonstrates that objects that have gone out of sight are experienced as persisting in awareness, serves as the basis for a proposal that the awareness of social structures of a conceptual nature may arise from the pragmatics of perception–action from an ecological perspective.

The Role of CSR Reporting Instruments in Increasing the Organization's Management Performance

2021 ◽  
pp. 92-114
Author(s):  
Nicoleta Cristache ◽  
Daniel Constantin Diaconu ◽  
Razvan Catalin Dobrea ◽  
Cristina Dima ◽  
Cristian Constantin Draghici ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Performance Management ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Organization Performance ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Csr Reporting ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
A Company

This integrated approach implies a broad approach to monitor the performance of the organization both during its life cycle and on the different social dimensions, from the perspective of the conformity of the management processes in relation to the economic, social, and environmental principles. Currently, the social responsibility reporting is a major challenge for the management of organizations in the context where honesty, transparency, business ethics, are values shared by an entire community. The research involves a process through which a series of correlations between the CSR reporting tools and the organization performance management can be analyzed by highlighting the role of the different reporting variables in the architecture of the performance indicators of the organization. The chapter addresses how a set of CSR reporting indicators can be identified and be integrated into the performance indicators which characterize the sustainability of a company.

Ren and Causal Efficacy: Confucians and Whitehead on the Social Role of Symbolism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyo-Dong Lee
Keyword(s):  
Social Role ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Causal Efficacy ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Relational Ontology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
The Subject

Confucians in East Asia have always dreamed of holding human communities together and constructing well-functioning polities in and through the binding and harmonizing power of rituals. Underlying their trust in the power of rituals is the notion that rituals constitute symbolic articulation and enchancement of our affective responses to the conditions of embodied relationality and historicity in which we always already find ourselves. This Confucian theory of rituals resonates with Whitehead’s theory of symbolism, insofar as the latter advances a primordially relational ontology of the subject by highlighting the hitherto neglected epistemological notion of perception in the mode of causal efficacy. As such, the Confucian theory of rituals offers a fresh cross-cultural perspective to understand Whitehead’s implied critique of the modern liberal social theories that are based on a view of human beings as atomized individuals who rationally consent to enter society.

scholarly journals Does Environmental Management Accounting Matter in Promoting Sustainable Development? A study in Iraq

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-126
Author(s):  
Hutman falih Chichan ◽  
Hussein kareem mohammed ◽  
Tariq Tawfeeq Yousif Alabdullah
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Industrial Firms ◽  
Industrial Companies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Environmental Management Accounting ◽  
Statistical Program

Purpose of this study is to examine the extent to which Iraqi industrial companies are aware of the concept of environmental management accounting (EMA), to examine the role of EMA in providing information that might influence decisions related to environmental protection and preservation of natural resources to contribute to the development of sustainable development. A sample of Iraqi industrial firms was surveyed by distributing a questionnaire to a random sample of the research community in the context of Iraqi firms. In addition, it also considers the social dimensions of sustainable development and the economy. The resolution data were analyzed using a statistical program (SPSS). When analyzing the data, the findings of the current study indicate that Iraqi industrial companies have an awareness of environmental management accounting concepts. In addition it provides information that contributes to the promotion of sustainable development. This study recommends the need to implement environmental management accounting (EMA) in Iraqi industrial companies because of its important role in providing information that leads to the reduction of negative environmental impacts resulting from the practice of its activities.

scholarly journals The inequality debate: the neglected role of residential sorting

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip S Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Separation ◽  
Wealth Inequality ◽  
Location Decisions ◽  
Neighbourhood Effects ◽  
Homogeneous Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Residential Sorting ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
The Rich

One of the curious features of recent writing on income inequality is the scant attention paid to the geography of inequality, to the spatial separation of rich and poor. While it is recognised that social capital can be enhanced by residential sorting into more homogeneous groups, there is longstanding concern that this same residential sorting may exacerbate existing inequality by inhibiting the social mobility of the poor (Turner and Fortuny, 2009).  The perspective I want to advance here differs from the standard ‘neighbourhood effects’ literature by focusing not on those living in poor neighbourhoods, but instead on the benefits residential sorting may yield for the rich – the way in which location decisions redistribute income to the upper end of the income distribution and hence further income (and wealth) inequality. 

Emotion–performance relationships in team sport: The role of personal and social identities

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 629-635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mickaël Campo ◽  
Guillaume Martinent ◽  
Julien Pellet ◽  
Jérémie Boulanger ◽  
Benoit Louvet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hierarchical Linear Modeling ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Team Sports ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Linear Modeling ◽  
Identity Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Performance

In the field of emotion–performance relationship in achievement situations, the social dimensions of emotions have been understudied. Thus, recent advances highlighted the need to explore identity processes to know whether group belonging may influence individuals’ emotions and performance when they are involved in a task-group. The current study introduced an innovative approach to continuously capture the variability of emotions (pleasant and unpleasant), identity levels (personal and social) and performances (individual and collective) experienced during volleyball games. Six elite players ( M = 20.14 years; SD = 1.25) volunteered to participate in this research. For the purpose of this study, a program based on the Mouse Paradigm methodological approach was elaborated. A total of 9461 momentary assessments ( M = 1576.83 ± 94.38 per participant) was gathered for each of the aforementioned variables. Results of hierarchical linear modeling analyses showed a partial independence between social and personal identity, as well as an effect of identity levels on unpleasant emotions. Results also highlighted that neither identity levels nor emotions influenced individual performances. Taken together, these results were discussed in terms of theoretical and methodological advances that allow to deepen the understanding of emotions–performance relationships in the context of team-sports.

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