{"id":751,"date":"2011-06-21T14:39:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T19:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=751"},"modified":"2011-11-07T14:51:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T19:51:02","slug":"what-guides-a-moral-compass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2011\/06\/21\/what-guides-a-moral-compass\/","title":{"rendered":"What Guides a Moral Compass?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by jonwick04 on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/41237417@N08\/4409156418\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4048\/4409156418_8283a5a2c4_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Olympic Moral Compass\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Morality is a contentious topic both inside and outside of the academy. \u00a0In the Fall 2009 <em>Contexts<\/em> feature &#8220;The Good, the Bad, and the Social,&#8221; \u00a0Daniel Winchester and Steven Hitlin examine the sociology of morality and explain that every situation, no matter how brief or small, has a moral dimension. \u00a0And, our ideas of right and wrong are shaped by social forces.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you assign the article, you could also assign a &#8220;morality test.&#8221; \u00a0Here are a few examples:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/moral.wjh.harvard.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/moral.wjh.harvard.edu\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourmorals.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.yourmorals.org\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moral-politics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.moral-politics.com\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>You could also assign this <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/29\/opinion\/29mon3.html\">New York Times <\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/29\/opinion\/29mon3.html\">article<\/a> that briefly explains the work of Jerry Burger, a Santa Clara University Psychologist who replicated Milgram&#8217;s study four decades later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morality is a contentious topic both inside and outside of the academy. \u00a0In the Fall 2009 Contexts feature &#8220;The Good, the Bad, and the Social,&#8221; \u00a0Daniel Winchester and Steven Hitlin examine the sociology of morality and explain that every situation, no matter how brief or small, has a moral dimension. \u00a0And, our ideas of right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3107,838],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-morality","tag-readings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}