Charlotte Witt

Social Goodness

The Ontology of Social Norms

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

We are all immersed in a sea of social norms, but they are sometimes tricky to observe with any clarity. They are often invisible to us and emerge only when they are not observed. Social norms are important to understand because they are both limiting of our freedom, such as gendered and racialized norms, and at the same time the very conditions of our agency. Social Goodness presents an original theory of the normativity or normative "oomph" of social role norms by developing an artisanal model for human social normativity. The artisanal model for social role normativity has resources to explain both the "stickiness" or persistence of social norms, and our ability to criticize existing norms and to engage in normative self-creation--to create new normative selves.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 149mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 287g
• ISBN-13: 9780197574799
• ISBN-10: 0197574793
• Artikelnr.: 67608415

Autorenporträt

Charlotte Witt is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire. Her most recent books include The Metaphysics of Gender (Oxford University Press, 2018), Feminist Metaphysics: Explorations in the Ontology of Sex, Gender, and the Self (Springer Publishing, 2010) , and (coedited with Sally Haslanger) Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays (Cornell University Press, 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
1. Social Role Normativity: Internalism and Externalism
2. The Artisanal Model
3. Social Norms and Social Reality
4. Habituation, Imitation, and the Critical Self
5. Self-Creation and Transformation
6. The Artisanal Model and Social Hierarchy
Epilogue: Social Roles and Oppression
Bibliography
Index