Situational ethics

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

THE COMMUNITY IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Subordination, Consumption, Resistance, and Transformation

Abstract: This article sets forth four modalities of the relationship between members of marginalized communities and the criminal justice system: subordination, consumption, resistance, and transformation. These modalities attempt to break out of traditional ways of thinking about community members’ formal roles in the system—defendants, witnesses, victims, judges, prosecutors, police officers, correctional officers, and the indeterminate but oft-invoked “community.” Instead, these modalities are fluid and situational. This article also calls for new research, scholarship, and advocacy that takes seriously how members of communities that the criminal legal system most deeply and directly affects engage in these fluid and situational modalities. Attention to the complexity of “community” is essential to creating lasting change in social systems of blame and punishment.

What Triggers Students' Interest during Higher Education Lectures? Personal and Situational Variables Associated with Situational Interest.

Abstract: Lecturing is often touted as a means to inspire students’ interest, despite evidence that most lectures fail to do so. This study examines triggers of students' situational interest during ...

Fathers in situational crisis: A comparison of Asian and Western cultures

Abstract: The purpose of this synthesis was to compare the difference between Asian and Western fathers' perceptions of their roles when confronted with situational crises involving their children. Twenty-two studies were reviewed and assigned to one of two categories: the father experiencing a situational crisis related to his child's illness or cultural influences on the paternal role. The results indicated that Asian and Western fathers' perceptions of crises do not differ greatly. It was concluded that there exists a gap in the literature with respect to the knowledge of Asian fathers' situational crisis surrounding their child's illness, their coping strategies when faced with their child's illness, as well as their emotional reactions toward family health. Future research should investigate the single or same-gender father's perceptions and emotional reactions in both Asian and Western cultures.

Emotions and concerns: Situational evidence for their systematic co-occurrence.

Abstract: People experience emotions when events are relevant to their current concerns, that is, when events affect their goals, values, or motives that are pertinent at that time. In the current research, we focused on one kind of concern-values-and examined whether different types of concerns are associated with different categories of emotion. More specifically, we investigated whether, at the situation level, the relevance of different types of values is linked to the intensity of different types of emotional experience. We conducted two retrospective survey studies (Studies 1 and 2)-one of which was cross-cultural-and one experience-sampling study (Study three). Together, the three studies provide convergent evidence for associations between the situational relevance of self-focused values (e.g., ambition, success) and socially disengaging emotions (e.g., pride, anger) on the one hand, and between the relevance of other-focused values (e.g., loyalty, helping) and socially engaging emotions (e.g., closeness, shame) on the other. These findings challenge the (often implicit) assumption of emotion theories that different types of concerns are interchangeable-that is, that it does not matter for emotion which concern is relevant as long as one is. In contrast, the current research proposes that different concerns are constitutive elements of different emotional experiences and thus encourages new ways of thinking about emotions. (PsycINFO Database Record

Subjects' Expectations About Their Own Interpersonal Communication: A Multidimensional Approach:

Abstract: A questionnaire study was conducted in order to dis cover the conceptual structures people implicitly use in coding interpersonal communication. In the section of the questionnaire discussed in this report subjects made semantic-differential-type ratings of a large number of hypothetical communication episodes. Each "communication episode" was comprised of a dyadic relation involving the subject (e.g., "you and a coworker") and a situa tional context (e.g., "attempting to work out a compromise when your goals are strongly opposed"). A multidimensional analysis of the data revealed five dimensions, which were interpreted as "cooperative and friendly vs, competitive and hostile," "informal and open vs, formal and cautious," "intense vs. superficial," "equal and symmetric vs, unequal and asymmetric," and "task-ori ented vs. non-task-oriented." The relative importance of the interpersonal relations and the situational contexts varied con siderably for different dimensions.