Diversity, deviance, and virtue within imperfect moral communities

A moral community in healthcare is necessary for ethical practice of nursing. Nurses are bound to each other through common ethical commitments, whose purpose extends beyond, but must include, self-care. This article is written to help the reader reflect on what makes a moral community and to identify strategies to create one. The discussion also includes resources to support moral communities and organizational trust, and thoughts to help nurses to find their places in a moral community.

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Moral Communities and Sex: The Religious Influence on Young Adult Sexual Behavior and Regret

Sociological Perspectives ◽

10.1177/0731121417730015 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 61 (3) ◽

pp. 361-382 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Kyle C. Longest ◽

Jeremy E. Uecker

Keyword(s):

Sexual Behavior ◽

Young Adult ◽

Sexual Behaviors ◽

Adolescent And Young Adult ◽

Religious Activities ◽

Religious Influence ◽

Moral Communities ◽

Religious Salience ◽

Sexual Regret ◽

Nationally Representative

Research indicates that religiosity inhibits adolescent and young adult sexual behavior, but few studies examine how religious contexts may shape sexual behavior. When religious contexts are considered, studies rarely test multiple spheres of religious influence simultaneously. Moreover, little research examines how either individual religiosity or religious contexts shape emotional responses to sex. We analyze nationally representative, longitudinal data that allow for concurrent examination of multiple religious contexts and several measures of young adult sexual behaviors and sexual regret. The influence of religiosity on sexual behavior and regret varies within and across both the spheres and outcomes tested. Individual religious salience and close ties with parents are the most consistent deterrents to initiation of sexual intercourse and having numerous intercourse partners. Closeness to parents and participation in religious activities are associated with lower odds of sexual regret, but ties to adults in one’s religious congregation are associated with increased sexual regret.

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The Detraditionalization of Intimacy Reconsidered

Sociological Theory ◽

10.1111/j.0735-2751.2005.00255.x ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 23 (3) ◽

pp. 286-311 ◽

Cited By ~ 108

Author(s):

Neil Gross

Keyword(s):

Intimate Relationships ◽

The United States ◽

Sexual Intimacy ◽

Moral Communities ◽

Cultural Frameworks ◽

The World ◽

Relative Decline ◽

Modern Era ◽

Late Modern ◽

The U.S

This essay challenges those strains of contemporary social theory that regard romantic/ sexual intimacy as a premier site of detraditionalization in the late modern era. Striking changes have occurred in intimacy and family life over the last half-century, but the notion of detraditionalization as currently formulated does not capture them very well. With the goal of achieving a more refined understanding, the article proposes a distinction between “regulative” and “meaning-constitutive” traditions. The former involve threats of exclusion from various moral communities; the latter involve linguistic and cultural frameworks within which sense is made of the world. Focusing on the U.S. case and marshaling various kinds of empirical evidence, the article argues that while the regulative tradition of what it terms lifelong, internally stratified marriage has declined in strength in recent years, the image of the form of couplehood inscribed in this regulative tradition continues to function as a hegemonic ideal in many American intimate relationships. Intimacy in the United States also remains beholden to the tradition of romantic love. That these meaning-constitutive traditions continue to play a central role in structuring contemporary intimacy suggests that detraditionalization involves the relative decline only of certain regulative traditions, a point that calls into question some of the normative assessments that often accompany the detraditionalization thesis.

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Etica mercantile e sviluppo economico

SOCIETÀ E STORIA ◽

10.3280/ss2009-125004 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 465-502

Author(s):

Monika Poettinger

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Social Capital ◽

Economic Development ◽

World Wide ◽

Social Recognition ◽

Moral Code ◽

Economic Independence ◽

New Era ◽

Moral Communities ◽

Self Interest

- Up to the nineteenth century, merchants extended networks of subsidiaries, correspondents and investments world-wide, becoming a major trigger of innovation and economic development. To guarantee the functioning of their international merchant houses, they had to adhere to a strict moral code. The resulting "moral communities" diffused everywhere the "merchant´s liberty": working to fulfil oneself, striving to obtain economic independence and richness as social recognition. As the Ancien Régime neared its end, merchants were ready to economically and morally guide society into a new era. At the same time as many discussed the noblesse commerçante, though, philosophers and economists ridiculed merchant virtues, transforming merchants in men bent only on profit and self-interest. The industrialist, so, became the bourgeoisie´s myth and merchant ethics vanished from the agenda of historians and economists alike. Industrialization thusly lost one of its main characters and economy missed a catalyst of innovation and social capital formation.

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