TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boudon,Raymond
TI  - The origin of values: sociology and philosophy of beliefs 
SN  - 0765800438
AV  - BD232 .B68 2000
PY  - 2001///]
CY  - New Brunswick, N.J.
PB  - Transaction Publishers
KW  - Values
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-220) and index; Table Of Contents; Introduction: Explaining Values and Valuation; Explaining Values and Valuation: A Question That Has Inspired Many Theories; The Diversity and Empirical Inefficiency of Value Theories; Munchhausen's Trilemma; Munchhausen's Trilemma and Scientific Knowledge; Munchhausen's Trilemma and the Explanation of Norms and Values; ``Fideist'' Theories; Skeptical Theories; Rational Theories; Normative and Positive Beliefs; The Trilemma and Moral Life; Rational Theories: Limits of the ``Rational Choice Model''; The Attractiveness of Rational Choice Theory (RCT); Whether RCT is General; Alternative Way; Two Examples from Tocqueville; ``Cognitive Rationality''; A Special Case of Utmost Relevance; RCT: A Particular Case of a More General Model; Relativistic vs. Naturalistic Theories: Their Interest and Limits; That Value Relativism is Widespread; Do We Need to Accept These Views as Sociologists and as People?; The Naturalistic Reaction; The Reasons for Moral Convictions; Communitarianism Revisited; A Seminal and Difficult Notion: ``Axiological Rationality''; Weber Often Ill-Understood; The Methodological Principles of Weber's Sociology; Why These Principles?; Moral Feelings; ``Gesinnungsethik'' and ``Verantwortungsethik''; Back to Kant?; Generalizing the ``Rational Choice Model'' into a Cognitivist Model; Explaining Collective Beliefs: The ``Cognitivist'' Model; Type 2 Beliefs: Examples from Cognitive Psychology; Type 3 Beliefs: Examples from the Sociology of Knowledge; Type 3 Beliefs: Examples from the Sociology of Norms and Values; The Need for a Non-Utilitarian Notion of Rationality; The Cognitivist Model Applied to the Analysis of the Feelings of Justice; Philosophy and Sociology on Axiological Feelings; A Cognitivist Theory of Axiological Feelings; Smith's Example; Lessons from Smith's Example; Application of the Model to Two Examples; Checking the Importance of Contextual Effects; Which Criteria of Fairness, Legitimacy, Etc.?; The Universal and Contextual Dimensions of Axiological Feelings and Justice Feelings in Particular; Contextual Variations of Tolerance to Inequalities; Beyond Kantian, Utilitarian, and Contractualist Theories; The Cognitivist Model Applied to the Analysis of Public Opinion; A Free Interpretation of the Metaphor of the ``Impartial Spectator''; Effects of Social Affiliations: Special Interests, Group Interests, and Role Interests; Effects of Community Affiliations; Effects of Position; Organizations and People; Cognitive Effects; Axiological Effects; Scheler Effects; Combined Effects; Tocqueville-Kuran Effects; The Influence of the Impartial Spectator; Public Opinion and the Rationalization of Social Life; References; Index
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