ISBN:
9781317077619
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (281 pages)
Series Statement:
Law, Ethics and Governance
Parallel Title:
Print version Duncan, Nick Positive Social Identity : The Quantitative Analysis of Ethics
DDC:
302.3/5
Keywords:
Social ethics
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- How ethics, morality and identity are treated in this book -- 1 Evolutionary motivations towards pro-social moral norms -- Recognising the evolutionary value of social interdependence -- 2 The social brain and moral self-identity -- Natural selection by morality in animals and humans -- Situation and human social groups -- Reading the situation: an evolved pre-requisite of morality -- Antecedents of the subjective evaluation of dilemmas -- Feeling and thinking about moral dilemmas -- Self-identity and the moral evaluation of situation -- 3 Situation and transformation in the resolution of social dilemmas -- The intrapersonal 'we' in collective behaviour -- Towards strongly reciprocal behaviour -- The 'interdependence situation' framework -- Subjective values for an 'outcome matrix' -- The transformation of the dyadic interdependence situation -- Intra-group situation and perceived interdependence -- Interdependence theory as a theory of optimal distinctiveness -- Inherited heuristics enhancing the value of pro-social outcomes -- Social structure and the interdependence situation -- From cooperative to pro-social outcomes -- The everyday events and the conditions of optimal interdependence -- Situational triggers of biological disposition in the perception of affordances -- Enlarging the analytical model of the symbiosis of interdependence-distinctiveness and social dilemmas -- 4 Intrapersonal identity positivity -- Positive identity: causes and outcomes -- 5 Positive social identity -- Motivations of the individual: the interdependence of social and individual identity -- Transformation: the ethics of an accessible moral and positive identity
Abstract:
The social structure of the resources of positive social identity -- Positivity-interdependence: the single construct of positive social identity as a heuristic for optimal inclusive fitness, its ethics and moral norms -- 6 A situational model of positive social identity -- A nested situational structure -- Evolution -- Neurology and psychology -- Interdependence -- Positive social identity -- An analytical framework -- A positive social identity hypothesis -- Indicators and measurement -- Falsification of the hypothesis and the measurement of inclusive fitness -- Measurement tools -- The analysis of agency on costs and benefits on behaviour -- Core analyses -- 7 A situational analysis of positive social identity -- The organisation analysed -- Evaluation and behaviour in dilemmas: salient multilevel moral norms -- The everyday ethics of optimal social identity -- Key indicators of subjective evaluation of optimal positivity of social identity -- Transformation: distinctiveness in indicators of positive social identity between the organisation (proximate) and external domain -- The partial agency of leadership in transformation -- Optimal interdependence: affordances and evidence of transformation -- An optimal interdependence-distinctiveness structure of constrained agency and transformation -- The data, its use and its limitations -- Interpreting the positivity of social identity in this case -- 8 Conclusion: The distinct importance of positive social identity -- Bibliography -- Appendix 1: Data collected -- Appendix 2: Correlation between indicators of PSID pro-social behaviour and social resources -- Appendix 3: Equations used for graph-level indicators -- Degree centrality -- Density -- Centralisation -- Krackhardt connectedness -- Krackhardt hierarchy -- Krackhardt LUBness -- Krackhardt efficiency -- Edgewise reciprocity
Abstract:
Link community centrality -- Index
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