Sociology’s Sacred Victims and the Politics of Knowledge: Moral Foundations Theory and Disciplinary Controversies

Horowitz, Mark; Haynor, Anthony L.; Kickham, Kenneth

doi:10.1007/s12108-018-9381-5

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“…Martin 2016). These claims are consistent with a recent survey of 479 U.S. sociologists that found a majority of respondents endorsed the idea that sociology has a moral mission (Horowitz, Haynor, and Kickham 2018). Moral/political motivations have also been linked to resistance to evolutionary explanations in psychology (von Hippel and Buss 2018), the near exclusive focus among social psychologists on conservative (rather than liberal) prejudice (Crawford 2018), and the heavy focus on bias (rather than accuracy) in studies of social perception (Jussim 2012).…”

Section: Higher Education and Moral Changesupporting

confidence: 90%

College and the “Culture War”: Assessing Higher Education’s Influence on Moral Attitudes

Brocic

Miles

2021

Am Sociol Rev

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Moral differences contribute to social and political conflicts. Against this backdrop, colleges and universities have been criticized for promoting liberal moral attitudes. However, direct evidence for these claims is sparse, and suggestive evidence from studies of political attitudes is inconclusive. Using four waves of data from the National Study of Youth and Religion, we examine the effects of higher education on attitudes related to three dimensions of morality that have been identified as central to conflict: moral relativism, concern for others, and concern for social order. Our results indicate that higher education liberalizes moral concerns for most students, but it also departs from the standard liberal profile by promoting moral absolutism rather than relativism. These effects are strongest for individuals majoring in the humanities, arts, or social sciences, and for students pursuing graduate studies. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of our results for work on political conflict and moral socialization.

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Section: Higher Education and Moral Changesupporting

confidence: 90%

College and the “Culture War”: Assessing Higher Education’s Influence on Moral Attitudes

Brocic

Miles

2021

Am Sociol Rev

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“…Interestingly, perhaps due to how individualism and social structural explanations have become so aligned with each side of the political divide, a recent study found that most sociologists in the US self-identified as left leaning. As a focus on systemic explanations is central to the discipline this makes sense, and is likely true in other nations as well (Horowitz et al, 2018). 14.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Anti-sociologisme, Zionism, and Islamophobia in Philippe Val’s Charlie Hebdo

Neffati

2021

French Cultural Studies

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In this article, I examine Charlie Hebdo, under the editorship of Philippe Val from 1994 to 2005, and how it reported on themes related to Islam and Muslims, both in France and abroad, particularly in relation to the satanic breasts controversy and the Hebron massacre in 1994, the Kosovo war, 9/11, and the 2005 banlieues riots in France. I argue that despite the plurality of voices within the magazine, Val succeeded through his editorial line to establish and promote a link between antisemitism and Muslims and produce a narrative that harbours Islamophobia. By conflating Arabs and Muslims, pro-Palestinianism and postcolonialism, and by arguing that anti-Semitism is inherent in Islam, Val sowed the first seeds of Islamophobia in Charlie Hebdo’s editorial line as early as 1994. This reached its culmination first in 9/11 then in the Mohamed caricatures, and has consistently and irreversibly continued to shape the magazine’s ethos.

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“…Influenced by the concept of "repressive tolerance" (Moore et al, 1965), there has been increasing acceptance of the notion that the liberation of historically oppressed groups necessitates the suppression of ideologies that are understood to support this oppression (Haidt & Lukianoff, 2018;Pluckrose & Lindsay, 2020). As conservatives are seen to uphold the status quo and thus the perceived oppression, intolerance of their presence within institutions becomes justified in the new liberal worldview (Epstein, 2020;Horowitz et al, 2018).…”

Section: Homophily In Intra-and Inter-organizational Networkmentioning

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Ideological homophily in board composition and interlock networks: Do liberal directors inhibit viewpoint diversity?

Hudson

Morgan

2021

Corporate Governance

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Research issue: A consistent feature of social networks is homophily: the tendency for people to interact with similar others. Psychological and sociological research suggests that homophily is most pronounced along ideological lines, with conflicting evidence as to whether this tendency is higher among individuals who hold liberal or conservative beliefs. Based on this literature, we conduct the first study of ideological homophily in two key organizational networks: the intrafirm connections among directors on the board and the interfirm connections created by board interlocks.Research insights: In a panel of 408 U.S. firms between 2000 and 2020, we find that liberalism increases homophily both within and between boards. Furthermore, we find that homophily has decreased over time but that this has been driven by conservative boards while the effect of liberalism has strengthened in recent years. These findings provide the first evidence for an ideological component in the composition of intra-and interorganizational networks.Academic implications: Most research on director selection and interlock formation has focused on situational or demographic antecedents. Our findings contribute to the development of a broader theoretical framework that accounts for individual dispositional factors in these processes.Practitioner implications: Our findings bring attention to the issue of ideological homogeneity in firms. Given the growth of homophilic tendencies among liberal directors in recent years, we suggest that it may be increasingly important for directors to become aware, and mitigate the effects, of their ideological biases in order to maintain cognitive diversity in information networks and decision making.

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Sociology’s Sacred Victims and the Politics of Knowledge: Moral Foundations Theory and Disciplinary Controversies

Cited by 19 publications

References 36 publications

College and the “Culture War”: Assessing Higher Education’s Influence on Moral Attitudes

College and the “Culture War”: Assessing Higher Education’s Influence on Moral Attitudes

Anti-sociologisme, Zionism, and Islamophobia in Philippe Val’s Charlie Hebdo

Ideological homophily in board composition and interlock networks: Do liberal directors inhibit viewpoint diversity?

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