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Public Morality (public + morality)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Humanities and Social Sciences75%

Selected Abstracts

Public Morality Versus Personal Choice: The Failure of Social Attitude Surveys

THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, Issue 3 2003
Catherine Hakim
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Toward an anthropology of culpability

AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 2 2004
Nandini Sundar
ABSTRACT Anthropologists concerned with political violence and justice must engage in a comparative examination of culpability for past and ongoing crimes. When powerful states use reparations, truth commissions, or war crime tribunals to attribute culpability to others, including their past selves, they often, paradoxically, legitimize ongoing injustices. As against culturalist explanations for mass violence, which set up a hierarchy of cultures, we need to look at the institutional sites through which public morality is constructed. This approach is illustrated with reference to the killing of Muslims in Gujarat, India, in 2002 and to the invasion of Iraq by the United States in 2003. [source]

Keeping the Peace: A Tale of Murder and Morality in Postapartheid South Africa

POLAR: POLITICAL AND LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY REVIEW, Issue 2 2008
Michal Ran-Rubin
This article examines a South African murder trial known as the Reeds Murders as a site for analyzing discourses of crime, race, and citizenship within the context of postapartheid South Africa. I show how concerns over public morality are represented within the juridical field, as well as how the defendants in this case deploy collective memories of state violence to challenge the court's vision of postapartheid justice. I conclude by exploring both how public fears of African youth emerge in the sentencing of the accused, and also how those fears map onto the contours of a postapartheid moral geography. [source]

Fundamental Rights: Between Morals and Politics

RATIO JURIS, Issue 1 2001
Gregorio Peces-Barba Martínez
Starting from the impossibility of understanding fundamental rights from the standpoint of natural law doctrine or positivism, the author tackles the issue of rights from a realistic point of view, that is to say from the perspective of law and politics on the one hand, and from the perspective of public morality, on the other. Thus the foundation of fundamental rights is the meeting point of conceptions of social morality that are current in the modern world and the political aspect of the conception of pluralist democracy. Moreover, fundamental rights are considered an instrument to enable the social and moral development of human beings. [source]