Everyman’s Reincarnations: Of Men, Monkeys, and Moralities

Social Groups of Monkeys, Apes and Men

Sociologists and anthropologists recognise the 'face to face' group ?in which all the individuals meet each other in the course of the day's activities?as a primary group in all types of human society. This kind of group is similar to that which exists in sub-human primates. In a small human society, relationships tend to be personal and it matters a great deal more who a man is than what he do...

National Politics and Personal Moralities

S ometimes a finding in a survey, while of limited significance by itself, illuminates the encompassing, even debilitating, deficiency of a broader issue. One such finding has it that young Americans expect to have the right to be tried before a jury of their peers, but are quite reluctant to participate in jury duty. This finding illustrates a more general societal imbalance of people who freq...

Mediated Moralities: Sociocultural Approaches to Moral Development

The purpose of this chapter is to present a sociocultural perspective on the study of moral development, and to review theoretical and empirical work on moral development that has been conducted under the rubric of this perspective. This perspective has emerged over the course of the last decade or so, in response to a variety of challenges to prevailing theories of moral development—in particu...

Corruption in Bangladesh: Discourse, Judgements and Moralities

Political Science. This paper benefited greatly from comments from Geof Wood and discussions with J. Allister McGregor at the Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath and later with Eric Worby in Bangladesh. It began life as a report commissioned by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), but the views represented here are those of the author alone. Summary This paper bri...

The Growth of Cognitive Structure in Monkeys and Men