Modern societal organization can weaken moral drives and make immorality more plausible

Evidence

The point made in this chapter is that powerful moral drives have a pre-societal origin, while some aspects of modern societal organization cause considerable weakening of their constraining power; that, in effect, society may make the immoral conduct more, rather than less, plausible. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 566

Categorization

• XREF: flagged by the selector, no supporting note recorded — connects to: Social organization neutralizes morality by making action adiaphoric, neither good nor evil — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 613; Social organization displaces autonomous moral drive with instrumental and procedural rationality — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 612; Orthodox sociology assumes social regulation produces morality and restrains savagery — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 47 (+13 more)
• SEED: This directly serves the Islamophobia scaffolding task: modern bureaucracy as morality-eroding mechanism.

Related

• Social organization displaces autonomous moral drive with instrumental and procedural rationality (similarity 0.89)
• Orthodox sociology assumes social regulation produces morality and restrains savagery (similarity 0.87)
• Organizations suppress morality because it cannot be rationalized (similarity 0.86)
• Morality precedes society and society merely manipulates an already-existing moral structure (similarity 0.85)
• Sociology reduces morality to derivative products of non-moral social institutions (similarity 0.84)
• Socialization manipulates but never produces moral capacity (similarity 0.84)
• Moral capacity arises socially but not from societal institutions (similarity 0.84)
• Modern society weakens morality through distance, technical responsibility, and segregation (similarity 0.83)
• Under modern order moral behavior often means resisting societal authority (similarity 0.83)
• Social organization neutralizes morality by making action adiaphoric, neither good nor evil (similarity 0.83)
• Sociology mirrored modern society by banishing ethical problematics from its discourse (similarity 0.82)
• Durkheim’s framework equates morality with social origin, leaving only animal drives as alternative (similarity 0.82)
• Sociology treats social learning as the unexamined root of all human morality (similarity 0.82)
• Moral violations get theorized as production failures within a factory metaphor of society (similarity 0.82)
• Moral resistance is personal while immorality requires social production (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Moral capacity arises socially but not from societal institutions #qualifies (0.78) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 499
• Human morality is contingent rather than invariant across circumstances. #expands (0.75) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 390