Civic Morality Research Articles

Gender Differences in the Perception of Ethics and Civic Moral Disengagement in Medical Doctors

The present study aims to find the gender differences in the perception of doctors while making ethical decisions and their level of civic morality. A simple distinction between ethics and morality would be that ethics are in reference to an external source, they come from the work environment. A comparative research design has been used in this study for which a Purposive sampling strategy was selected. The participants of the study selected were 75 male and 75 female doctors aged 25-40 years, practicing in Jinnah Hospital and Services Hospital, Lahore. Ethics Position Questionnaire (EPQ) and Moral Disengagement Scale (MDS) were utilized to collect the data. To identify the differences among the variables Independent Sample T-test was administered on the collected data. The results of the study revealed that there is no significant difference in the perception of ethics and civic moral disengagement, this brought to the view that gender alone does not influence one’s ethics, pro-social reasoning, and behavior. The findings of this current research state that there are no differences among doctors working in two different locations, among genders, or between ethics and civic moral disengagement. This would be helpful to know because doctors constantly face questions regarding ethics and have to make fast, effective decisions that will affect their patient's life.

Study on Civic Moral Construction in the New Era

Focusing on the construction of civic morality, the current situation of civic morality construction is studied to set up a sample demonstration for the integration of socialist core values into civic morality in the new era. The contradictions existing in the practice of civic moral construction in the new era will be analysed, and a specific path to solve the problem will be found.

“Radicals” and “Racists”: Morality and Identity in U.S. Elite Political Communication

This study examines how elite political and media actors strategically leverage moral claims for partisan ends, transforming political identities, issues, and campaigns into zero-sum moral contests against their opposition. Here, I develop a framework for and approach to the study of morality as a strategic and identity-based tool in political communication, in the process developing a way of studying powerful and pervasive forms of political discourse often overlooked by scholarship. I show how partisan actors have identity-based motivations for employing particular forms of moral political communication, including religious, social, and civic morality. I then apply this framework to the case of the U.S. 2020 election, conducting context-sensitive computational and qualitative content analyses of elite political communication across political talk shows, op-eds, and campaign Twitter discourse. Results reveal the pervasive nature of moral political communication in these spaces. This work shows how, as U.S. political parties increasingly represent divergent and less cross-cutting groups of people, elite actors draw upon moral claims to attract and perform for particular ideological, religious, racial, and ethnic identity coalitions—often drawing from the same moral vocabulary to articulate opposing visions of democracy and civic life.

Youth Participation in Politics: Shared Vision and Democracy in India

Many people think that young people will be the leaders of tomorrow, but in reality, they are the leaders of today, and their diverse upbringing and life experiences will influence how they view politics. They must thus become more politically educated and engaged in order to direct their efforts toward constructive change and position themselves as leaders in the defense and advancement of democracy. Young people who are politically engaged develop a civic ethic that extends beyond politics and includes community service through involvement in health, education, and philanthropic endeavors. Voting, taking part in political revelations, and signing petitions on certain causes are all examples of political involvement, which is a more focused form of civic commitment or contribution. Young people's involvement in politics is not only advantageous in the near run, but it also lays the groundwork for sustained political activism in the future. It is imperative that they acknowledge that they are the leaders of today and, as such, that they have a greater say in the course of their future. In addition, kids may be a creative force and a dynamic source of inventions. Throughout history, youth have surely engaged in, contributed to, and even accelerated significant changes in political institutions, power relations, and economic prospects. This research paper is based on youth participation in politics: shared vision and democracy in India.

Identity Politics and a New Civic Ethic in Europe: A Legal Analysis

Identity Politics and a New Civic Ethic in Europe: A Legal Analysis

Tempering the Marital Mind: Civic Regimens of Love and Marriage in German Mid-Eighteenth-Century Moral Weeklies

This article contributes to the historiography of romantic marriage in the eighteenth century by analyzing discourses on marital love and happiness in the moral weeklies of the German writers Georg Friedrich Meier and Samuel Gotthold Lange. Meier and Lange raise overarching questions about why so many marriages are unhappy and argue that long-term marital contentment requires spouses to discover and confirm each other's qualities and abilities on a daily basis. Each must reflect and affirm the other while also practicing a kind of de-escalation in conflict situations, for instance by withdrawing and calming oneself before facing problems anew. I argue that this apparently modern therapeutic approach to marital relationships was part of a civic morality in the making, a morality that pointed forward to the emergence of a modern individual self while also being rooted in a long tradition of spiritual exercises and therapeutic regimens.

Impartiality and fair play revisited

Impartiality and fair play revisited

PROPAGANDA ȘI RECONVERSIA CONȘTIINȚELOR-AGITATORUL COMUNIST. STUDIU DE CAZ: „CARNETUL AGITATORULUI” (II)

In both public and private life, aggressive exposure to communist ideology through acts of culture, false or misleading information generates an alternative reality. Therefore, one of the first purposes of the political agitation was to shape the public’s perception regarding global and domestic issues. Presenting events and facts one-sidedly, overwhelming people with visions of a possible paradisiac socialist society, and appealing to frustration creates a confusing but conveniently manipulated context. By creating such a situation, citizens were encouraged to become informers who were rewarded for revealing enemies of progress and setting an example of civic morality. As a result of public and private spaces degradation, a passive and resigned citizens emerged. By providing a comprehensive overview of the communist agitator’s work, this study is intended to bring it to the attention of the public. Additionally, it will discuss agitator’s ideological education, the techniques and the strategies he was recommended to, and how he approached the agitation duties. To carry out this study, the booklet „The Agitator’s Booklet” will be used as a primary source, which reflects the agitator’s work regading political-patriotic education,propaganda and many more.

Symposium Introduction: Discourse Ethical Perspectives on Education in Polarized Political Cultures

Symposium Introduction: Discourse Ethical Perspectives on Education in Polarized Political Cultures

Do market societies undermine civic morality? An empirical investigation into market societies and civic morality across the globe

Although the market is often praised as a wealth-creating coordination system, it is also repeatedly criticized for undermining morality. We empirically examine whether exposure to markets is associated with lower levels of civic morality, i.e. the responsibility and respect of the individual towards society's rules and the public good. Because most prior research lacks generalizability, we scrutinize the relationship between markets and individuals’ civic morality in a large set of highly culturally and institutionally diverse countries and regions. Multilevel analyses of cross-country individual-level survey data indicate a robust positive relationship between market exposure and civic morality. We find that subnational regions and countries experiencing an increase in market activity also experience an increase in individuals’ civic morality. Our results suggest that the mechanism behind this relation works through the fairness of the market process. We conclude that there is no empirical evidence suggesting that markets undermine civic morality.

Investigating the Obstacles to Achieving Good Governance in the Public Sector with an Emphasis on Civic Ethics

Investigating the Obstacles to Achieving Good Governance in the Public Sector with an Emphasis on Civic Ethics

The Relationship between Time Personality and Teachers’ Emotional Exhaustion: A Moderated Mediation Model

In the highly interconnected and connected contemporary environment, work connectivity behavior has become an inevitable typical situation for most teachers. Individuals with different time personality traits not only differ in time management, time planning, and multi-tasking tendencies, but also have different time perceptions of the same physical time. However, how individuals with different time personalities affect emotional exhaustion in work connectivity behavior scenarios needs to be further explored. Based on conservation of resource (COR) theory, differences in time personality traits show different degrees of emotional exhaustion through individuals’ work connectivity behavior. Meanwhile, organizational citizenship behavior, as very important extra-role behavior, can positively influence organizational functioning and interpersonal interactions within the organization, and based on attribution theory, individuals with high levels of organizational citizenship behavior would perceive off-time work connectivity behavior as altruistic and pro-organizational behavior. Therefore, this study integrated two theoretical perspectives to explain the effect of time personality on emotional exhaustion, the mediation of work connectivity behavior and the moderating role of organizational citizenship behavior (helping behavior or civic morality dimensions), both of which play a role in predicting emotional exhaustion based on time personality. In this study, the analysis of the valid data obtained from 630 teachers revealed: (1) Time personality has a positive significant effect on emotional exhaustion. (2) Work connectivity behavior mediates the relationship between time personality and emotional exhaustion. (3) Two dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior, helping behavior and civic morality, inversely moderate the relationship between work connectivity behavior and emotional exhaustion and the mechanism by which time personality positively facilitates emotional exhaustion through the mediation of work connectivity behavior. What is more, the study discusses the findings on the effects of time personality on emotional exhaustion and suggests its practical implications.

James R. Harrison. (2019). Paul and the Ancient Celebrity Circuit, The Cross and Moral Transformation

In this collection of essays, Australian ancient historian and biblical scholar, James R. Harrison, compares aspects of today’s cult of celebrity, fuelled by various media, to the quest for glory in Roman antiquity. This was a quest characterised by the constant self-advertisement of the Roman nobility, who were so keen not only to equal the glory of their ancestors, but to surpass it. Against the backdrop of this well-attested quest for ancestral and personal glory, Harrison examines how the “shame of the cross overturns the deeply entrenched Graeco-Roman culture of esteem and, in a surprising case of social levelling, establishes humility as its crowning virtue for the great man and his dependents” (vi). This leads to the question of how this “cultural collision, still reverberating today, affected the civic ethics of Paul’s converts, their communal ethos and paradigms of group identity, their pedagogical curriculum, and their understanding of honour and dishonour?” (vi). In addition to the introductory and concluding chapters, Harrison has added three new studies (chapters 2, 3, and 6) for this collection. Five previous studies have been updated to emphasise their contribution to an understanding of how the cross of Christ effected moral transformation in the face of the self-assertive values espoused by the luminaries of the ancient celebrity circuit (vi).

Construction of Curriculum Ideological and Political Collaborative Education Mechanism Based on Edge Computing and Neural Network Algorithm.

The ideological and political collaborative education mechanism is an important course teaching method that uses all courses as a carrier to cultivate students' all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique, and beauty. The purpose of this paper is to conduct a better research on the construction of the ideological and political collaborative education mechanism by building models based on edge computing and neural network algorithm. This paper first gave a general introduction to edge computing and neural network algorithm and then analyzed the current situation of ideological and political courses in a certain school. Then, edge computing and neural network algorithm were introduced into the analysis of an important course teaching method that used all courses as a carrier to cultivate students' comprehensive development in morality, intelligence, physique, and beauty. The BP neural network model was established. Through analysis and comparison, the experimental results showed that 56.47% of the students believed that the impact of personal morality on the future development of college students was the first in the relationship between “virtue” and “talent.” More than half of the students believed that the “virtue” of building morality and cultivating people was mainly civic morality, and about 30% of the students thought that the main value was loving the party and patriotism, which meant that most students believed that the main value of building morality and cultivating people was to establish morality.

“Why do I have to do this? And why not?” Institutions, integrity, and citizenship under threat

Ed Shapiro’s important and thought-provoking article deals with civic ethics and is organised around three critical points: a call (1) for taking personal authority in order to protect the group from (what is perceived as) its destructors (Why do I have to do this?); an offer for (2) doing it by being emphatic with the “enemy” (in what way is he right?); and (3) encouragement to reveal “active citizenship”. The discussion challenges those questions by asking: Do I have to do this?Always? And why me? Do I have to understand the other? Always? Under what conditions? And is it really possible, taking into account our unconscious attitudes towards “otherness”? The discussion refers to the timing and the sociopolitical con-text of Shapiro’s article—namely turbulent times and a deep disappointment of present-day leadership—and interprets his challenge as a call for the return of the individual almost as a “Nietzschean hero”—namely, to differentiate him/herself even from the group-as-a-whole. Some unconscious aspects of the challenge which Ed Shapiro puts before us are discussed, referring to the inherent tension between “what should be” and “what is actually happening”.

A DIACHRONIC STUDY OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF CIVIC ETHICS IN CHINA

Civic ethics, as a special ideology, is ultimately determined by the economic foundation and is always the product of concrete, realistic and specific industrial relations and social relations. Among the various social forms, the main content of civic ethics and the way of its construction vary greatly. Conduct a diachronic study of civic ethics, explore the main content of civic ethics and the ways of its construction in various social forms and make up the inevitable logic, academic orientation and basic theoretical field of research in the field of building civic ethics.

PROPAGANDA ȘI RECONVERSIA CONȘTIINȚELOR. AGITATORUL COMUNIST. STUDIU DE CAZ: „CARNETUL AGITATORULUI” (I)

In both public and private life, aggressive exposure to communist ideology through acts of culture, false or misleading information generates an alternative reality. Therefore, one of the first purposes of the political agitation was to shape the public’s perception regarding global and domestic issues. Presenting events and facts one-sidedly, overwhelming people with visions of a possible paradisiac socialist society, and appealing to frustration created a confusing but conveniently manipulated context. By creating such a situation, citizens were encouraged to become informers who were rewarded for revealing enemies of progress and setting an example of civic morality. As a result of public and private spaces degradation, a passive and resigned citizens emerged. By providing a comprehensive overview of the communist agitator’s work, this study is intended to bring it to the attention of the public. Additionally, it will discuss agitator’s ideological education, the techniques and the strategies he was recommended to, and how he approached the agitation duties. To carry out this study, “The Agitator’s booklet” will be used as a primary source, which reflects the agitator’s work regading political-patriotic education, propaganda and many more.

Does Political Participation Strengthen the Relationship between Civic Morality and Environmentally Friendly Attitudes? Evidence from South Korea.

Environmental degradation in recent years has been threatening not only environmental sustainability but also human viability. To counter these threats, this study focuses on whether civic morality is associated with taxation for environmental protection (green taxation) and with higher pricing for environmental protection (green pricing) and whether the relationship between civic morality and green taxation, as well as that between civic morality and green pricing, is moderated by individuals’ perceptions of their own political participation. Employing the 2014 Korean General Social Survey and an ordered probit model, the study finds that civic morality is positively associated with green pricing and green taxation. Moreover, the positive relationship between civic morality and green pricing, as well as between civic morality and green taxation, is further strengthened when individuals’ perceptions of their own political participation are strong.

Etyka cnót obywatelskich w polskiej tradycji i współczesności

The article is an attempt to indicate the presence of the ethics of civic virtues in Polish ethics, both old and modern, which is worth in-depth attention. Problems of civic morality have constantly accompanied ethics and morality in Poland since the Renaissance. Its content was usually a reflection of critical reflection on the defects of civic morality, especially of the nobility, and over time of the bourgeoisie, and at the same time it was normatively constructive as historical and political changes and the scope of civil society expanded, formulating “the ideal of the citizen in a democratic system”. The author of the article selects from the history of Polish ethics the most important figures who address the issue of virtue ethics, showing its constant presence in history, using the prism of civic ethos as a key element for the ethics of public life. It was difficult to prove the existence of a specialized section of civic ethics, but the normative civic ethos can be reconstructed from the perspective of the ethics of virtue and social ethics in a broader sense. From the historical perspective, this ethos appears both as a certain set of practices, which was only outlined in the context of the article, and as an ordered product of normative thought.

ИСТОРИЯ РИМСКОЙ РЕСПУБЛИКИ С ПОЗИЦИИ ЦЕННОСТНОГО ПОДХОДА: К ВОПРОСУ О СУЩНОСТИ MOS MAIORUM

This article analyzes one way to make a theoretical sense of the essence of the Roman civic ethics, a constant element of the political struggle in the Roman Republic. Notably, the axiological approach, which is an important methodological tool due to the specifics of the Roman political practice, has not been used in historiography to its fullest potential due to lack of conceptualization. This is reflected in historiographical studies: most researchers unanimously emphasize the essential role of the Roman virtues (virtutes) in the Roman political culture. The analysis of the historiographical works showed that philological methods are traditionally used to study the Roman virtues, which serve as a key to answering numerous questions related to the ideas of the Romans. The results obtained revealed that these tools are not sufficient themselves due to the discrepancy between the Roman reality and political rhetoric, in the context of which the virtues are identified. Differences were found between Russian and foreign historiography in the approaches to the analysis of the concepts related to the one under consideration here. The vast potential of using the axiological approach to study the Roman history was outlined. Earlier attempts to get the most of it were critically assessed. To advance the achievements that have been made, the concept of value was clarified and defined in terms of the Roman political context.