Moral Orientation Research Articles

O. K. NATALEVYCH TEACHING SCHOOL IN MEMORIES OF ITS STUDENTS AND ARCHIVE MATTERS

The materials of the article introduce a prominent personality in the art pedagogy of Poltava Oblast in the middle of the 20th century – Olena Kostyantynivna Natalevich, whose teaching school was known far beyond the borders of Ukraine. The authors of the article set themselves the goal of recreating the portrait of O.K. Natalevich – a teacher, mentor, musician, concertmaster – based on the memories of her students and archival files, to show the heredity of the generations of Olena Kostyantynivna's school in Ukraine and on European grounds, to emphasize her moral and human qualities, the cohesion of her class of students, their love for their the teacher The materials of the article include archival files of the Poltava College of Arts, as well as materials of two International Art Readings dedicated to the memory of O.K. Natalevich, to her 95th and 100th anniversaries. We can talk a lot about her pedagogical methods, but our task was to recreate the portrait of an outstanding personality, a teacher and educator, a musician, just a highly moral person. In the musical circles of Ukraine and beyond, the memory of O.K. Natalevich, musicians consult with her pedagogical principles, with her internal moral, aesthetic and musical orientations.

Mapping Conscience: Network Analysis Into the Differences in Maturation of Offending and Non-Offending Adolescents.

Conscience is a diagnostically relevant concept in forensic psychiatry, but often misinterpreted as an all-or-none phenomenon. We conceptualize the conscience as a psychic function in which elements like empathy, self-conscience emotions such as shame, guilt and pride, and moral orientation work together. The differences in conscience functioning can be described in terms of developmental levels of integration. We conducted network analyses on data collected via a questionnaire survey held among 52 offending and 243 non-offending juveniles. We displayed two networks: One representing the non-offenders' normative and one representing the offenders' defiantly maturing conscience. As was hypothesized, in the non-offenders network, almost all elements clustered into one clinically meaningful network, indicating integration of the different elements of the normative maturing conscience. In the offenders network, the correlations between the elements were sporadic, indicating a lack of integration of the defiantly maturing conscience. The difference between the two networks was more prominent for empathy and moral orientation than for self-conscious emotions. This research supports the theory of differences in maturation of conscience instead of being an all-or-none phenomenon and calls for further research, taking a deeper look at the significance of integration of the conscience and its implications for offending behaviour.

Spillover effect of workplace democracy: A conceptual revision.

The so-called "spillover thesis" by Pateman is one of the prominent theoretical explanations for why workplace-based participation and democracy could induce stronger political participation. By this thesis, Pateman underscored the relevance of industrial workplaces as relevant places where citizens can be socialized regarding democratic attitudes while proposing the educative effect of workplace democracy and assuming a strong linkage between workplace-based and political participation as moderated by self-efficacy. The spillover thesis has received a controversial consideration as previous empirical studies have provided inconsistent evidence. Some empirical undertakings support the assumption by Pateman and indicate a positive relationship between workplace democracy and societal effects, like increased moral and community orientation or higher levels of political participation among employees from companies with higher degrees of workplace democracy. Other empirical studies yield results that do not confirm the thesis. Scholars have discussed method-based shortcomings of the previous empirical research while pointing to the inconsistency of definitions and operationalizations as the main shortcoming. In contrast to that, systematic conceptual consideration of the spillover thesis and the accompanying scholarship are still lacking. The present article addresses this shortcoming and provides a critical reflection on the spillover thesis and corresponding research. It aims at identifying the main conceptual shortcomings and providing avenues for future theoretical undertakings in analyzing whether and how participation at the workplace is related to participation in political domains.

"A MODEL OF PROFESSIONAL - DEONTOLOGICAL CULTURE OF OFFICIALS THE PROSECUTORS’S OFFICE IN THE REPUBLIC KAZAKHSTAN"

"The professional deontological culture is a systematic complex socio-legal phenomenon that affects the quality of work of the Prosecutor’s Office officials. Under the conditions of socio-economic reform of society, the moral foundations of public service, the moral characteristics of public servants acquire special importance. Practically, the leading regulator that determines a person’s specific behavior becomes its moral orientation. The relevance of research on the problem is determined by the following reasons: - the strengthening demand for better social protection has led to an increase in the level of social claims to the authority, professionally engaged in the supervision over the state of law in the country; - frequent cases of neglect of prosecutors to the law, the rights of citizens, the other legal values, and at the same time, increasing numbers of violations of the law by using official power. The aim of the research is to present a model of professional deontological culture formation in officials of the Prosecutor’s office of the Republic of Kazakhstan and a complex of conditions for its effective functioning Keywords: deontological foundations, prosecutors, ethics, legal conscience, legal culture, morality."

Wang Anshi and Song Poetic Culture

Wang Anshi and Song Poetic Culture

Envisioning a credit society: social credit systems and the institutionalization of moral standards in China

China’s Social Credit System (SCS) has been widely considered a centralized surveillance project, whereas recent research found multiple scoring systems co-existing in various fields at multiple administrative levels and in diverse forms. Despite the broadened view toward the complexity of SCS, these research projects continue to focus on SCS mainly as political and digital control mechanisms. Instead, this paper is interested in the social and cultural meanings of SCS constructed in the media, both at the national and local levels. Based on the analyses of news reports since the year 2003, when the term SCS was officially coined, this paper examines the historical narratives about SCS, including its rationales, stakeholders, and intended goals/tasks. It argues that the SCS construction has been a societal project anchored in a distinct moral orientation of financial credit. While credit systems are often used to classify consumers and financial subjects in Western contexts, the case of Chinese SCS shows that the moral dimension of financial credit scoring has enabled its spread into other non-financial domains. Also, the institutionalization of such moral standards is considered an effective approach to addressing various socio-economic and ethical issues that have long baffled economic development and social justice in China’s reform era.

Is Blame a Moral Attitude?

The present article challenges a widespread view of blame as an inherently moral attitude. I begin by pointing out some features of blame that are not readily explained by, and not obviously compatible with, a moral orientation. To account for those features, I elucidate Nietzsche’s insights that blame responds to frustration and can serve as a bulwark against unwelcome self-perception, drawing as well on modern psychoanalysis’s inheritance of those insights. In the second half of the paper, I critically examine three of the most thorough attempts to root blame in moral foundations, those of George Sher, T.M. Scanlon and Miranda Fricker. I argue that each of these authors overestimates the prevalence and centrality of the influence morality can have on blame, to conclude that blame and morality only dovetail contingently some of the time.

The principles of a personality-oriented educational process organization at a university

The paper identifies the place of the problem of personality-oriented education in modern scientific discourse and substantiates the importance of personality-oriented education as a pedagogical tool for educational process organization at a university that provides an optimal combination of interests of an individual, society and the state in terms of development of a students personality as a person and a professional. The multidimensional nature of the problem of a personality-oriented educational process in higher education is shown, an important aspect of which (problem) is the definition of principles of a personality-oriented educational process organization at a university. The meaning of the term principle is specified in the context of pedagogical knowledge. The principles of its implementation adequate to the content of personality-oriented education are revealed and it is substantiated that the principles of implementation of personality-oriented education at a general educational institution and a university are not identical and have specific features. The principles of personality-oriented education and the principles of personality-oriented education developed by scientists are given. The possibility of implementing the principle of the transition of values for oneself into values for another and the principle of the moral and ethical orientation of the educational process at a university is substantiated. The content of these principles is supplemented and their essence is revealed as the principles of organizing a personality-oriented educational process in higher education. The essence of the principle of the transition of values for oneself into the value for another lies in the teachers orientation both to the actualization in their own value sphere of consciousness of values based on the corresponding concepts of morality, their implementation in the educational process, and to the development of the concepts of morality among students, which, directing his thought to another person, including the teacher, to his acceptance, to the recognition of his dignity, etc., and being endowed with meaning, take on the meaning of values moving in the space of relations between the teacher and a student. The essence of the principle of the moral and ethical orientation of the educational process lies in the orientation of the teacher to the development of the concepts of morality, through the prism of which he perceives and interprets pedagogical situations that arise in interaction with students who direct the teachers thinking to search for values that unite him and students when achieving goals and are the criteria for the implementation of the teacher's reflection of pedagogical situations that arise in the educational process of the university.

K 드라마 영웅서사에 내재한 충서(忠恕)사상

This study aims to examine the thought inherent in the hero narrative of the TV drama series, Itaewon Class. That is because it is judged that the universal value of mankind is contained in the heroic narrative, which is the prototype of the narrative. This is why this study aims to explore the philosophical thoughts of chung-seo (忠恕) as a theoretical background. The idea of chung-seo, a core concept of Confucius along with benevolence (仁) and rite (禮), is understood in terms of Juja’s ideas. In this context, chung (忠) refers to jinsimjigi (盡心之己) which means doing one’s best to keep his heart, and seo (恕) refers to not forcing others to do what he or she does not want to do. This study utilizes the heroic narrative stages advanced by Christopher Vogler as a method to analyze the drama, Itaewon Class in order to find the intertextuality between the drama and the ideology of chung-seo. Therefore, this paper first confirms that the drama is a heroic narrative, and tries to reveal the thought inherent in the drama. The study results are as follows: In the drama, Itaewon Class with a heroic narrative, a vocation is given to the main character, Sae-Roi Park to exclude violence, and the changed vocation is to prove that the business ethics is keeping faith with his coworkers. And, through the fulfillment of the main character’s vocation, the drama successfully acquires the elixir of moral life orientation. In addition, as a result of analysis, it was found that the main character, Sae-Roi Park, is a character with the idea of chung, the necessary and sufficient condition for a hero. In this context, chung is extended from the self, to the others, to the society, etc. Based on this, the main character practices the idea of chung, which returns chung to the main character, leading him to achieve his purpose. This is the universal moral value contained in the drama. Through this, this study confirms that the ideology inherent in the drama Itaewon Class is the ideology of chung-seo.

MCCLESKEY ACCUSED Justice Powell and The Moral Price of Institutional Pride

<i>MCCLESKEY</i> ACCUSED Justice Powell and The Moral Price of Institutional Pride

The effect of corporate donation motive attribution on investors' judgments of future earnings prospects: The moderating role of individual moral orientation

AbstractWe experimentally investigate whether donation motive attribution influences individual investors' judgments of the donating firm's future earnings prospects and whether individual moral orientation, that is, perceived importance of social goodwill (PISG), moderates this effect. We find that investors forecast higher future earnings per share (EPS) when the donation motive is believed to be altruistic or win–win rather than egoistic; the EPS forecasts for altruistic and win–win motives are not different. However, this motive attribution effect holds only for higher‐PISG investors. A further examination finds that when the donation motive is believed to be egoistic and/or when investors have lower PISG, doing good is no better than doing nothing, but no backfire effect occurs. Our findings indicate that the positive effect of corporate donation on investors' judgments is generated only when higher‐PISG investors believe that the donation motive is not purely egoistic; corporate donation will not generate negative effects on investors' judgments even under less favorable conditions.

Guilt Feelings in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: An Investigation between Diagnostic Groups.

Guilt plays a role in various forms of psychopathology. However, different types of guilt might be involved in different mental disorders. Obsessive-compulsive (OC) patients are prone to a type of guilt in which the violation of an internalized moral norm is necessary and sufficient, whereas data suggest that depression might be linked to more interpersonal types of guilt. However, the extent to which a specific guilt phenomenology is involved in each condition is yet to be determined. Here we assessed the association between different types of guilt and different diagnostic groups. Two clinical samples (33 OCD and 35 non-OCD) filled in the Moral Orientation Guilt Scale (MOGS) along with other OCD and depression measures. Regression was employed to test group differences in the MOGS subscales and to test the influence of MOGS subscales on OCD and depression levels. Results confirm that different types of guilt might be implicated in different psychopathological conditions. Specifically, moral norm violation guilt is more present in OC patients than in other disorders. Depression seems to be associated with different guilt feelings depending on the psychopathological condition, specifically in non-OC patients, with types of guilt involving a “victim”, supporting the accounts viewing interpersonal guilt as involved in the emergence of depressive symptomatology and hyper-altruistic behavior as a vulnerability factor for depression.

The Impact of Orientations on Sustainable Performance

This study has aimed to investigate the influence of managers’ orientation towards sustainability on corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices; besides, how those activities may affect social, economic and environmental sustainable performance. Moreover, it has explored the role of social responsible practices as a mediator across orientations and social, economic and ecological performance. Research data is collected by a survey and purposive technique has been adopted. Managers and owners of small and medium manufacturers (SMMs) were the sample. It has been found that moral orientations of managers have impacted CSR practices, and these activities have influenced environmental and societal sustainable performance, whereas economic sustainable performance is not being affected. Further, CSR practices have mediated owners’ orientations and sustainable performance dimensions excluding economic sustainable performance. The study has suggested that future research could investigate other sectors, and they may explore more variables.

Justice or Care? How Moral Orientation Affects Observer Reactions to Coworker Bullying

Coworker bullying often transpires in workplaces and is likely to be witnessed by third-party employees. Existing research on observed coworker bullying has examined its negative effect on observers’ well-being. However, observers can intervene in such circumstances. The authors draw on moral orientation theory to examine how observers react when they see their coworkers being bullied in the workplace. Based on moral orientation theory, hypotheses state that observers who have strong justice orientations will experience anger and respond with retribution toward perpetrators, while observers who have strong care orientations will experience sympathy and help victims. A laboratory experiment using facial expression analysis (N = 116) and a multisource, multiwave field study (N = 280) provide data supporting the hypotheses. The studies establish that justice or care moral orientation determine whether observers react to coworker bullying with retribution or helping behaviors.

WHAT SHAPES HIGH ACCEPTANCE – MORAL ORIENTATION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between moral orientation types and the&nbsp; level of acceptance. Besides, the issue was to identify value systems on which moral types are built&nbsp; and their role in structuring acceptance. In the third part of the study, we describe a presumable mech- anism, which might affect the relationship between moral orientation types and level of acceptance.&nbsp; Data were obtained from 370 participants. Results indicated, that high level of moral absolutism&nbsp; (Situationism, Absolutism) related to self-transcendence and conservation value systems, while high&nbsp; moral relativism was associated to – openness to change. Logistic regression detected, that conser- vation value system is the strongest predictor of orientation type. Other than that, results suggest,&nbsp; that psychological flexibility closely relates to basic value systems. Multiple hierarchical regression&nbsp; demonstrated the role of self-transcendence and openness to change as for psychological flexibility,&nbsp; as well as for unconditional self-acceptance.&nbsp; Path analysis indicated that psychological flexibility acted as partial mediator between basic&nbsp; value systems and unconditional self-acceptance. However, there was no connection between moral&nbsp; orientation type and acceptance. The theoretical implication of this study is to support a newer vision of moral psychology and to&nbsp; help to identify the basics and outcomes of moral orientation.&nbsp; The practical implication concerns to almost all therapeutic processes, which are oriented on&nbsp; growth of unconditional self-acceptance, and as such, it is important to consider every aspect of its&nbsp; constitutive.&nbsp;

Global Brands, Cosmopolitan Socialization, and Consumption: the Case of ikea and the ‘Stuff’ of Ordinary Cosmopolitanism

Abstract In this paper we consider how the global brand ikea works as an agent of cosmopolitan socialization and shapes everyday practices of cosmopolitan consumption. Drawing on material from case study research, we consider ikea’s support of cosmopolitan consumption through its emphasis on corporate social responsibility and framing of a cosmopolitan brandscape. We argue that ikea actively works to socialize individuals toward a moral cosmopolitan view, with the aim of enlisting consumers in the co-performance of global socio-environmental responsibility. Based on our interview data, we discuss how ikea does not so much cultivate cosmopolitan outlooks as affirm existing moral and aesthetic orientations, while easing ethical consumption concerns with a socially responsible image. Further, we show how ikea conducts a subtler, practical form of socialization: shaping ordinary cosmopolitan practices – ways of doing cosmopolitanism – with sustainable ‘stuff’ and in-store activity. In this way, ikea supports the co-production of a very ordinary, if not, convenient cosmopolitanism.

Об упадочном характере эллинистической философии

The purpose of the article is to identify the factors that influenced the formation of the idea of the decadent nature of Hellenistic philosophy. It is established that Hegel and E. Zeller played an important role in the formation of this idea. The formation of the idea of the inferiority of Hellenistic philosophy was influenced by the problem of sources. Serious gaps in the sources led to a distorted view of the philosophy of Hellenism. Underestimation of the philosophical teachings of Hellenism is the result of the idea of their moral and practical orientation and a low level of speculative and scientific. The negative attitude towards the philosophy of the Stoics, Epicureans and skeptics was promoted by the idea of the dominance of individualism in these teachings. The last factor is the thesis about the decadent nature of the Hellenistic era, which was caused by the loss of political freedom by the Greeks

Formation of future teachers’ worldview culture by means of foreign-language education

Introduction. The formation of students’ worldview culture, which manifests itself in broad erudition, orientation at humanistic principles, aspiration for knowledge, realisation of essential potential along with spiritual perfection, is an important and personality developing purpose of foreign-language education at higher educational institutions. The aim of the article is to reveal and analyse the pedagogical conditions of forming the world-outlook culture of future teachers in the process of realisation of the methodological model for development of intrinsic intellectual culture of bachelor degree students majoring in pedagogical profile by means of foreign-language education. Materials and methods. The research methodology was based on the ontological, event-based, anthropological, synergetic, hermeneutic, humanistic, axiological, culturological, personality-developing approaches. The study involved 687 students of the following profiles: humanities, pedagogical-, social-, technical-, physical-, mathematical-, natural sciences, majoring in Bachelor-, Specialist- and Master Degree programmes at Petrozavodsk State University. Eighteen students – future teachers were the participants of the main experimental training. To handle the research objectives, a set of methods was used: questioning, polls, D.A. Leontiev’s test of meaning-life orientations, quantitative analysis of paper projects, Pearson correlation coefficient. Results. The comparative analysis of the diagnostic test results revealed an improvement in the experimental group students with respect to the indicator of integrity of knowledge (85.72%) manifested in the solidity of acquired knowledge, stability of ideas on integrity of the world, self-awareness as a subject of perception and the urge towards self-reflection based on self-comprehension. Moreover, the moral orientation rates increased by 14.29%, including motivational and value-based attitude to the teacher’s profession; the social activity of future teachers increased significantly (by 42.86%) – manifested through the translation of the internal worldview into one’s vital activity. The positive dynamics of change in the extent of correlation of the number of students by level at the initial (0.614) and final stages (0.474) was identified, which is accounted for by the increased number of students with high level and absence of students with low level, as a result of the experimental training. Conclusions. The formation of worldview culture of future teachers is achieved through actualisation of cognitive, gnoseological, regulatory, communicative, educational, creative, hermeneutic, humanistic and other orientations of foreign-language education at the university.

РАЗВИТИЕ КРЕАТИВНОСТИ УЧАЩИХСЯ НА ОСНОВЕ ПРИОБЩЕНИЯ К НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫМ ТРАДИЦИЯМ ПОСРЕДСТВОМ ПРОВЕДЕНИЯ НАРОДНЫХ ПРАЗДНИКОВ

This article discusses the problems of humanistic education, some innovative approaches to the humanization of education. The ultimate goal is to educate patriotism, respect for the traditions and memory of ancestors, distract children and adolescents from the negative impact of a changing environment, form their ideas about the healthy foundations of life with its moral and ethical orientation based on true value ideas about the world through introducing students to folk holidays. The creative search of teachers of educational institutions is presented

Moral orientations as a factor of family self-determination development of modern students

Introduction. The phenomena of the family-demographic crisis in modern society make it necessary to study socio-psychological factors determining the actualisation and development of family self-determination of young people in the context of digital socialisation. Within the framework of digital socialisation, an open and contradictory information space determines the nature of marriage and family ideas, which are the indicative basis for the implementation of family behaviour by young men and women.Aim. The aim of the research is to identify the features of family self-determination of Russian students, who have different moral orientations and personality types in adolescence and early adulthood.Methodology and research methods. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study consists of: cultural-historical theory of psychological development and the doctrine of a psychological age by L. S. Vygotsky; age and psychological approach to the analysis of mental development in ontogenesis; theories of family self-determination of the individual; the concept of personality orientation by B. S. Bratus; concepts of moral self-determination by A. B. Kupreichenko, A. E. Vorobieva, Q. Guo, P. Sun, M. Cai, X. Zhang, K. Song; theories of prosocial behaviour by K. R. Bell, C. J. Showers; L. Kamas, A. Preston. The study involved 490 students, mostly enrolled in the humanities educational programmes. To achieve the goal, the author applied theoretical and methodological analysis of scientific literature; methods of comparison, generalisation, concretisation; psychodiagnostic method and mathematical and statistical methods of data processing.Results. The conducted research has shown that the dominant moral orientation of the personality in adolescence and early adulthood is a peace-building orientation. As a result of comparative analysis of the structural and content characteristics of family self-determination depending on personal moral orientation at different stages of age development, general and specific features were identified. The invariant characteristic is manifested in the fact that in the humanistic orientation there is a high importance of the value of happy family life; in the peace-building orientation – the strength of roles claims in the sphere of social activity for the stability of marriage and family relations, the importance of such marriage motives as self-actualisation and security; the probability of marriage regulated by unproductive feelings of revenge increases in the egocentric orientation. Adolescence is a sensitive period to form a cognitive component of family self-determination of student youth through the development of spiritual and moral sphere. The period of early adulthood is the most sensitive for the development of value-emotional and regulatory-behavioural component of family self-determination as a result of purposeful education of humanistic and peace-building orientation of students’ personality.Scientific novelty of the research lies in the establishment of the connection between the moral orientation of the personality and meaningful characteristics of family self-determination of students in adolescence (17–19 years) and early adulthood (20–22 years).Practical significance. The research materials and findings can be used for creating the education programmes in the organisations of higher education and for planning measures to preserve and develop traditional family values in the youth environment.