The study of morality is an empirical as well as conceptual task, one that involves data collection, statistical analysis, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses. This volume is about moral judgment, especially its exercise in selected social settings. The contributors are psychologists, sociologists, and philosophers of morality, most of whom have collaborated on long-ranged research projects in Europe involving socialization. These essays make it clear that moral judgment is a complex phenomena. The book fuses developmental psychology, sociology, and social psychology. It relates this directly to the work of Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg, who wrote the introduction to the book. Whether moral reasoning has a content-specific domain, or whether its structures transcend specific issues of justice, obedience, and rights, these and similar questions suggest that moral philosophers and ethical theorists have much to say about the human condition. The contributors represent diverse disciplines; but they have as their common concern the topic of the interaction of individual or group-specific moral development and social milieu. Although deeply involved in empirical research, they maintain that research on moral development can be pursued properly only in conjunction with a well-formulated theory of the relationship between society, cognition, and behavior. Moral development is an institutional as well as individual concern for schools, universities, and the military. It is rooted in the ability to formulate genuine and coherent moral judgments that reflect social conditions at two levels: individual socialization and historical development of the social system. This classic volume, now available in paperback, not only exemplifies that framework, but also makes an important contribution to it.

The study of morality is an empirical as well as conceptual task, one that involves data collection, statistical analysis, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses. This volume is about moral judgment, especially its exercise in selected social settings. The contributors are psychologists, sociologists, and philosophers of morality, most of whom have collaborated on long-ranged research projects in Europe involving socialization.

These essays make it clear that moral judgment is a complex phenomena. The book fuses developmental psychology, sociology, and social psychology. It relates this directly to the work of Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg, who wrote the introduction to the book. Whether moral reasoning has a content-specific domain, or whether its structures transcend specific issues of justice, obedience, and rights, these and similar questions suggest that moral philosophers and ethical theorists have much to say about the human condition.

The contributors represent diverse disciplines; but they have as their common concern the topic of the interaction of individual or group-specific moral development and social milieu. Although deeply involved in empirical research, they maintain that research on moral development can be pursued properly only in conjunction with a well-formulated theory of the relationship between society, cognition, and behavior. Moral development is an institutional as well as individual concern for schools, universities, and the military. It is rooted in the ability to formulate genuine and coherent moral judgments that reflect social conditions at two levels: individual socialization and historical development of the social system. This classic volume, now available in paperback, not only exemplifies that framework, but also makes an important contribution to it.

Leistungsgesellschaft, "Risikogesellschaft", "Erlebnisgesellschaft" - diese drei von der Sozialwissenschaft beschriebenen "Typen" uberlagern und durchdringen sich in (post-)modernen Gesellschaften. Im Anschluss an das dritte Konzept versammelt dieser Band acht anschauliche Beitrage aus Psychologie und Soziologie zu erlebnisorientierten Freizeitbereichen. Es geht um Massentourismus, "Fun"- und Extremsportarten, Fussball, Popmusik, "suchtiges" Einkaufen als Zeitvertreib, Korperkult, Fantasy-Rollenspiele und virtuelles Vergnugen im "Cyberspace". Die Beitrage orientieren sich an der zentralen These, dass Gesellschaftstypus, Sozialcharakter und Freizeitverhalten in einer Wechselwirkungsbeziehung stehen: Die Gesellschaft modelliert (auch) uber Freizeitangebote und deren Nutzung die Sozialcharaktere, die zu ihr passen.

Die Konsumguterwerbung schafft Kultur, indem sie sich traditionelle Motive aus Literatur und Kunst aneignet und diese ihrem vordringlichen Verwertungsinteresse gemass umgestaltet. Derart fuhrt sie Traditionen, Sprach- und Sehgewohnheiten verfremdend und entfremdend fort. Sozialwissenschaftlich ist es von Interesse, diesen Umgestaltungsprozess zu studieren, in dessen Verlauf Muster verbalen und visuellen Erlebens sozialisiert werden. Vor dem Hintergrund dieser Diagnose versammelt der Band 12 exemplarische Fallanalysen von Werbeanzeigen in Publikumszeitschriften. Jede Studie fuhrt an einem jeweils ausgewahlten, markanten Beispiel eine spezifische, abgrenzbare Methode der Bild-Text-Interpretation vor, so dass ein reprasentativer Querschnitt moglicher Zugange zur Dramaturgie und Rhetorik von Werbeanzeigen in Printmedien aus kulturkritischer Sicht entsteht.