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Value (ethics)

About: Value (ethics) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 21347 publications have been published within this topic receiving 461372 citations.


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TL;DR: In this article, MacIntyre's book After Virtue is used as the basis to reflect on possibilities for virtue in accounting and some problems in its realisation, including the tendency for external rewards to dominate internal rewards, the corrupting power of institutions, and a confusion between laws (rules) and virtues.
Abstract: Alasdair MacIntyre′s book After Virtue is used as the basis to reflect on possibilities for virtue in accounting and some problems in its realisation. MacIntyre advances a neo‐Aristotelean account of virtue that is grounded in practice and which focuses on the unique internal rewards of a practice. Accounting is suggested to be a practice in this sense and five possible internal rewards are identified: honesty, concern for the economic status of others, sensitivity to the value of both co‐operation and conflict, the communicative character of accounting practice, and the dissemination of economic information. Several potential problems in realising virtue are then discussed including the tendency for external rewards to dominate internal rewards, the corrupting power of institutions, and a confusion between laws (rules) and virtues.

214 citations

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04 Apr 1997
TL;DR: In this paper, Touraine argues that if democracy is to survive in the postcommunist world, it must accomplish two urgent goals: it must somehow protect the power of the nation-state at the same time as it limits that power, and it must reconcile social diversity with social unity and individual liberty with integration.
Abstract: In this sequel to A Critique of Modernity, Alain Touraine questions the social and cultural content of democracy today. At a time when state power is being increasingly eroded by the economic might of transnational capital, what possible value can we ascribe to a democratic idea that is defined merely as a set of guarantees against the totalitarian state?If democracy is to survive in the postcommunist world, Touraine argues, it must accomplish two urgent goals: It must somehow protect the power of the nation-state at the same time as it limits that power (for only the state has sufficient means to counterbalance the global corporate wielders of money and information); and it must reconcile social diversity with social unity and individual liberty with integration.This is not merely a philosophical problem but a dilemma whose resolution will dramatically affect the immediate future of people everywhere. If we want a resolution in democracy's favor, then it is time, in Touraine's view, for us to redefine democracy in terms of active intervention rather than mere passive institution. To preserve the power and effectiveness of our states and societies, we must make visible strides?and soon?away from a politics of particularity and toward the integration and balancing of women and minorities, of immigrants, of rich and poor. If our states become too weakened, too debased by the politics of competing identities and interest groups, we will one day find ourselves without the means to protect the very values we believe we are fighting to uphold.

214 citations

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Tom Wilks1
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use vignettes to examine ethical dilemmas in social care, and explore values that might generate more complex and sophisticated understandings of social work ethics in practice.
Abstract: Values play an important role in the construction of social workers’ professional identities. However current accounts of social work ethics can have difficulty in providing an account of social work values in practice that incorporates the complexity and reflexive nature of much value talk in social care. Direct research in this area has been very limited. Where it has been carried out quantitative research using vignettes has been an important approach. Vignettes have many advantages when used to examine ethical dilemmas. Their increasing use in qualitative research offers new possibilities in exploring values that might generate more complex and sophisticated understandings of social work ethics.

214 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, an experiment explores how people infer personal dispositions from observing a consumer's behavior, and the results illustrate the value of the attribution approach but suggest the need for extending existing attribution theory.
Abstract: Attribution theory is used to develop a new approach to interpersonal influence. As a first step in investigating this approach, an experiment explores how people infer personal dispositions from observing a consumer's behavior. The results illustrate the value of the attribution approach but suggest the need for extending existing attribution theory.

213 citations

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TL;DR: It is found that, overall, urban users are net suppliers of social support while rural participants are net recipients, suggesting that technology-mediated online health communities are able to alleviate rural–urban health disparities.
Abstract: The striking growth of online communities in recent years has sparked significant interest in understanding and quantifying benefits of participation. While research has begun to document the econo...

212 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
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202212
2021864
2020886
2019898
2018824
2017977