Social Goodness by Charlotte Witt
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Description We are all immersed in a sea of social norms, but they are sometimes tricky to observe with any clarity. They are often invisible to us and emerge only when they are not observed. Social norms are important to understand because they are both limiting of our freedom, such as gendered and racialized norms, and at the same time the very conditions of our agency. Social Goodness presents an original theory of the normativity or normative "oomph"of social role norms by developing an artisanal model for human social normativity. The artisanal model for social role normativity has resources to explain both the “stickiness†or persistence of social norms, and our ability to criticize existing norms and to engage in normative self-creationâ€"to create new normativeselves.
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We are all immersed in a sea of social norms, but they are sometimes tricky to observe with any clarity. They are often invisible to us and emerge only when they are not observed. Social norms are important to understand because they are both limiting of our freedom, such as gendered and racialized norms, and at the same time the very conditions of our agency.Social Goodness presents an original, externalist answer to the question ofthe source or origin of social role normativity. Rather than grounding social normativity in the attitudes of persons, the book argues for an externalism that roots social role normativity in the social worlditself: in its positions, institutions, and larger architecture. The core insight of externalism is that the function or structural feature of an enterprise or activity can bring with it normative demands quite independently of the attitudes of those who engage with it. According to the artisanal model, just as a carpenter, ceramicist, or chef is responsive to and evaluable under a set of artisanal norms or techniques, so too is a mother and or an academic or a President. The source ofnormativity is this technique or expertise, independent of the preferences, endorsements, or recognitive attitudes of individuals. The artisanal model for social role normativity hasresources to explain both the
Author Biography
Charlotte Witt is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire. Her most recent books include The Metaphysics of Gender (Oxford University Press, 2018), Feminist Metaphysics: Explorations in the Ontology of Sex, Gender, and the Self (Springer Publishing, 2010) , and (coedited with Sally Haslanger) Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays (Cornell University Press, 2005).
Details ISBN 0197574793 ISBN-13 9780197574799 Title Social Goodness Author Charlotte Witt Format Hardcover Year 2023 Pages 160 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc GE_Item_ID:158447665; About Us
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