ISBN:
9781351477970
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Boudon, Raymond The Origin of Values : Reprint Edition: Sociology and Philosophy of Beliefs
DDC:
303.372
Keywords:
Values
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: Explaining Values and Valuation -- 1. Explaining Values and Valuation: A Question That Has Inspired Many Theories -- 1.1. The Diversity and Empirical Inefficiency of Value Theories -- 1.2. Miinchhausen's Trilemma -- 1.3. Miinchhausen's Trilemma and Scientific Knowledge -- 1.4. Miinchhausen's Trilemma and the Explanation of Norms and Values -- 1.5. "Fideist" Theories -- 1.6. Skeptical Theories -- 1.7. Rational Theories -- 1.8. Normative and Positive Beliefs -- 1.9. The Trilemma and Moral Life -- 2. Rational Theories: Limits of the "Rational Choice Model" -- 2.1. The Attractiveness of Rational Choice Theory (RCT) -- 2.2 Whether RCT Is General -- 2.3. Alternative Way -- 2.4. Two Examples from Tocqueville -- 2.5. "Cognitive Rationality" -- 2.6. A Special Case of Utmost Relevance -- 2.7. RCT: A Particular Case of a More General Model -- 3. Relativistic vs. Naturalistic Theories: Their Interest and Limits -- 3.1. That Value Relativism Is Widespread -- 3.2. Do We Need to Accept These Views as Sociologists and as People? -- 3.3. The Naturalistic Reaction -- 3.4. The Reasons for Moral Convictions -- 3.5. Communitarianism Revisited -- 4. A Seminal and Difficult Notion: "Axiological Rationality" -- 4.1. Weber Often Ill-Understood -- 4.2. The Methodological Principles of Weber's Sociology -- 4.3. Why These Principles? -- 4.4. Moral Feelings -- 4.5. "Gesinnungsethik" and "Verantwortungsethik" -- 4.6. Back to Kant? -- 5. Generalizing the "Rational Choice Model" into a Cognitivist Model -- 5.1. Explaining Collective Beliefs: The "Cognitivist" Model -- 5.2. Type 2 Beliefs: Examples from Cognitive Psychology -- 5.3. Type 3 Beliefs: Examples from the Sociology of Knowledge -- 5.4. Type 3 Beliefs: Examples from the Sociology of Norms and Values
Abstract:
5.5. The Need for a Non-Utilitarian Notion of Rationality -- 6. The Cognitivist Model Applied to the Analysis of the Feelings of Justice -- 6.1. Philosophy and Sociology on Axiological Feelings -- 6.2. A Cognitivist Theory of Axiological Feelings -- 6.3. Smith's Example -- 6.4. Lessons from Smith's Example -- 6.5. Application of the Model to Two Examples -- 6.6. Checking the Importance of Contextual Effects -- 6.7. Which Criteria of Fairness, Legitimacy, Etc.? -- 6.8. The Universal and Contextual Dimensions of Axiological Feelings and Justice Feelings in Particular -- 6.9. Contextual Variations of Tolerance to Inequalities -- 6.10. Beyond Kantian, Utilitarian, and Contractualist Theories -- 7. The Cognitivist Model Applied to the Analysis of Public Opinion -- 7.1. A Free Interpretation of the Metaphor of the "Impartial Spectator" -- 7.2. Effects of Social Affiliations: Special Interests, Group Interests, and Role Interests -- 7.3. Effects of Community Affiliations -- 7.4. Effects of Position -- 7.5. Organizations and People -- 7.6. Cognitive Effects -- 7.7. Axiological Effects -- 7.8. Scheler Effects -- 7.9. Combined Effects -- 7.10. Tocqueville-Kuran Effects -- 7.11. The Influence of the Impartial Spectator -- 7.12. Public Opinion and the Rationalization of Social Life -- References -- Index
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