Situational ethics

About: Situational ethics is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4023 publications have been published within this topic receiving 145379 citations.

The Politics and Practice of Situational Crime Prevention

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Learning and Motivation: An Asian Perspective:

Abstract: The paper examines the learning style and achievement orientation of Asian people focusing on the role of social and cultural factors including attitudes totuards learning and education. The strong collectivistic orientation of Asian people influences their achievement behaviour and success is defined in terms of recog nition and smooth social relationships. Asian students are socialised to value education and consider it a filial duty. The learning context in Asian countries is characterised as being highly authoritarian, teaching methods are expository and praise is seldom used. McClelland's achievement motivation approach was found to be ethnocentric, as it ignored situational and contextual factors. Studies are presented that reveal that the meaning of success is different for Asian people and is mediated by affiliative concerns. Achieuement attributions are different in that Asian students attribute both success and failure to more internal and controllable factors. The paper concludes that the attri...

To trust or not to trust: Situational and dispositional determinants

Abstract: The effects of situational uncertainty, social distance of the target person, and the actor’s disposition, on the level of trusting behavior were investigated using a series of scenarios. The results indicate that measures of dispositional trust can predict specific trusting behaviors, and that the situational factors interact. Specifically, in situations of low uncertainty, acquaintance level targets are trusted like intimate targets. Yet, in situations of high uncertainty acquaintances are trusted merely as acquaintances. Further, trusting behaviors are more likely to occur in situations of low uncertainty, and individuals of small social distance are more likely to be trusted than those of large social distance. Implications for empirical research requiring subjects’ trust, group membership, and theories of organizational climate are discussed.

Individual, situational and topic interest in geoscience among 11‐ and 12‐year‐old children

Abstract: All interest necessarily links the person with the external environment: the object/s of interest. Research into children’s interests is examined in the context of a rapidly‐expanding literature which has generated several powerful concepts in recent decades, notably ‘individual interest’, ‘situational interest’ and ‘topic interest’. The first is relatively robust and is usually represented as a manifestation of personality traits and psychological states. ‘Situational interest’, in contrast, relates to the learning environment, the context, and is essentially transitory. ‘Topic interest’ is more complex and a consensual definition has yet to emerge. It is conceived either as a subset of ‘individual interest’, involving a restricted part of a knowledge domain (the colloquial meaning of topic), or as a fluid amalgam of individual and situational interest. Very little research has been undertaken on science topic interest, the majority of related work dealing either with children’s interests in science per ...

The Bureaucratic Production of Difference : Ethos and Ethics in Migration Administrations

Abstract: In the context of the ever-increasing political problematization of migration in Europe, agencies charged with migrant administration create diverse categories of difference to distinguish between the »deserving migrant« and the illegal one: They assess the detainability or the credibility of asylum seekers, the danger posed by Islamic organizations, and make situational decisions that determine whether migration or labour law applies to individual agricultural workers. In this book, each chapter analyses how organizational interpretations of the common good shape bureaucratic practices. Together, these ethnographic analyses reveal how migration policies in different European countries take shape in administrative practice.