The Social Reality of Ethics: The Comparative Analysis of Moral Codes (Routledge Library Editions: Ethics) - Hardcover

Barnsley, John H.

 
9780367459635: The Social Reality of Ethics: The Comparative Analysis of Moral Codes (Routledge Library Editions: Ethics)
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ISBN 10: 0367459639 ISBN 13: 9780367459635
Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

Originally published in 1972, this book clarifies ‘ethical’ concepts such as ‘values’, ‘norms’ and ‘precepts’. It begins with a discussion of the conceptual problems faced by any inquiry into moral codes. The author looks in particular at the numerous ways of specifying the ‘moral’ component in human affairs and at the need for a definition appropriate to the requirements of social research. He then examines these questions from amore empirical viewpoint, and emphasis is put on the interplay between concepts and methods in social research. The important issues of ethical relativism and its relation to sociological inquiry is also raised. In this way, some of the possible ethical implications of sociology itself, both as an empirical discipline and as an organizing perspective, are critically examined.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367459639
ISBN 13 
9780367459635
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
468

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