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The contemporary sociology of morality is a form of descriptive ethics that shrinks away from any sort of prescriptive ethics. Building on the moral philosophies of John Dewey, and also of Alasdair MacIntyre and Paul Ricoeur, and in dialogue with recent work by Stefan Bargheer, this article proposes a more ambitious program of critical social ethics that connects concerns with character and the common good but tempers them with attention to alienation and oppression.
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Gorski, P.S. Deweyan moral sociology: descriptive cultural history or critical Social Ethics?. Theor Soc 51, 935–949 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-022-09497-x
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