PropertyValue
?:abstract
  • Moral rules that forbid killing, stealing, or cheating exist in every society. In the highly insecure environment of traditional societies, such rules claim absolute validity and have to be followed strictly (moral universalism/absolutism). Laid down by benevolent metaphysical powers, moral rules ensure maximal predictability, permitting the individual to cope with high levels of stress caused by insecurity. Modernisation, rationalisation, and secularisation change the application mode of moral rules. In modern societies, since the consequences of right action can no longer be assigned to metaphysical powers, people have to take responsibility for the foreseeable consequences themselves: conflicts become possible between moral rules and the negative consequences of morally right actions. As a result, formerly strict moral rules become prima facie rules which are applied context-sensitively (moral contextualism/restricted moral universalism): grey areas of moral dissent come into existence. In the highly secure environment of modern welfare states, people can tolerate more moral ambiguity, which however does not mean that basic moral rules lose their universal validity. Based on these considerations it is expected that younger cohorts are morally more tolerant than older ones. Since moral judgment requires cognitive skills, more highly educated people are assumed to be better able to distinguish under what conditions moral rule obedience is required and under what conditions an exception might be morally justifiable. The empirical results based on the European Values Study 2008 confirm these expectations. (xsd:string)
?:author
?:comment
  • http://jairo.nii.ac.jp/0132/00042256/en#news16721. (EVS) (xsd:string)
?:dataSource
  • EVS-Bibliography (xsd:string)
?:dateModified
  • 2018 (xsd:gyear)
?:datePublished
  • 2018 (xsd:gyear)
?:duplicate
?:fromPage
  • 81 (xsd:string)
is ?:hasPart of
?:isPartOf
?:issueNumber
  • 3 (xsd:string)
is ?:mainEntity of
?:name
  • The Impact of Modernisation and Culture on Morality and Moral Change in Europe: From Universalism to Contextualism (xsd:string)
?:publicationType
  • article (xsd:string)
?:reference
?:sourceInfo
  • Bibsonomy (xsd:string)
  • In The Aoyama Journal of Global Studies and Collaboration(3), 81-107, 2018 (xsd:string)
?:studyGroup
  • European Values Study (EVS) (xsd:string)
?:tags
  • 2018 (xsd:string)
  • EVS (xsd:string)
  • EVS2008 (xsd:string)
  • EVS_input2019 (xsd:string)
  • EVS_pro (xsd:string)
  • FDZ_IUP (xsd:string)
  • ZA4800 (xsd:string)
  • article (xsd:string)
  • checked (xsd:string)
  • english (xsd:string)
  • indexproved (xsd:string)
  • kbe (xsd:string)
  • noindex (xsd:string)
  • wa (xsd:string)
?:toPage
  • 107 (xsd:string)
rdf:type
?:url