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Situational ethics

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


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TL;DR: The results suggest that childhood and adolescent social adversity fosters a criminogenic knowledge structure as well as selection into Criminogenic activity spaces and risky activities, all of which increase the likelihood of offending largely through situational definitions.
Abstract: Simons and Burt's (2011) social schematic theory (SST) of crime posits that adverse social factors are associated with offending because they promote a set of social schemas (i.e., a criminogenic knowledge structure) that elevates the probability of situational definitions favorable to crime. This study extends the SST model by incorporating the role of contexts for action. Furthermore, the study advances tests of the SST by incorporating a measure of criminogenic situational definitions to assess whether such definitions mediate the effects of schemas and contexts on crime. Structural equation models using 10 years of panel data from 582 African American youth provided strong support for the expanded theory. The results suggest that childhood and adolescent social adversity fosters a criminogenic knowledge structure as well as selection into criminogenic activity spaces and risky activities, all of which increase the likelihood of offending largely through situational definitions. Additionally, evidence shows that the criminogenic knowledge structure interacts with settings to amplify the likelihood of situational definitions favorable to crime.

30 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effect of the mode of delivery of business ethics education on undergraduate student responses and found that gender was not significant, while cultural differences and gender were not significant.
Abstract: There are questions about how ethics is best taught to undergraduate business students. There has been a proliferation in the number of stand-alone ethics courses for undergraduate students but research on the effectiveness of integrated versus stand-alone mode of delivery is inconclusive. Christensen et al. (J Bus Ethics 73(4):347–368, 2007), in a comprehensive review of ethics, corporate social responsibility and sustainability education, investigated how ethics education has changed over the last 20 years, including the issue of integration of these topics into the core course offerings. We use Brenner and Molander’s (Harv Bus Rev 55(1):57–71, 1977) situational ethics survey instrument to examine the effect of the mode of delivery of business ethics education on undergraduate student responses. We found a significant difference on mode of delivery. Studies have also found interesting results in respect of the effect of cultural differences and gender on the effectiveness of business ethics instruction. While not the primary focus of this study, we also looked at the influence of gender and culture on students’ responses. Our results indicate significant differences in respect of mode of delivery and culture. In contrast to other studies, we found that gender was not significant. We did test for any interactive effects of gender, culture and mode of delivery. However, no significant differences were found.

30 citations

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01 Jan 2020
TL;DR: In this article, the authors categorised human needs into physiological and psychological needs, and found that human needs can be divided into two types of needs: physical and psychological need and mental or spiritual need.
Abstract: The paper human needs can be categorised into two, namely physiological and psychological needs The human physiological need refers to bodily health, whereas the internal need refers to the mental or spiritual aspect required for creating feelings of calmness in a person When a need is not fulfilled, a crisis within a person emerges Erikson opined that a person usually faces a problem caused by psychological or physiological aspects The physical and psychological (internal) aspects of an individual should be simulated within a person until they are capable of facing a crisis One type of crisis that influences the balance of the physical and psychological (internal) aspects is the situational crisis A situational crisis occurs when a certain external element influences the psychological balance in an individual or the environment For example, those suffering from COVID 19 are experiencing a situational crisis in the form of disruptions to the sufferer's physical and psychological (internal) states © 2020 Innovare Academics Sciences Pvt Ltd All rights reserved

30 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20242
20231,132
20222,631
2021154
2020179
2019133