Orthodox sociology assumes social regulation produces morality and restrains savagery

Evidence

On such a view (implicitly if not explicitly) one thing that emerges from the experience of the Holocaust intact and unscathed is the humanizing and/or rationalizing (the two concept are used synonymously) impact of social organization upon inhuman drives which rule the conduct of preor anti-social individuals. Whatever moral instinct is to be found in human conduct is socially produced. It dissolves once society malfunctions. … By implication, the presence of effective social regulation makes such disregard unlikely. The thrust of social regulation – and thus of modern civilization, prominent as it is for pushing regulative ambitions to limits never heard of before – is the imposition of moral constraints on otherwise rampant selfishness and inborn savagery of the animal in man. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 47

Categorization

• XREF: This is the key premise Bauman will dismantle — the assumption that civilization imposes moral constraint — which sets up his later argument that bureaucracy and rational means-end logic, not unleashed savagery, enabled the Holocaust. — connects to: The ignoble savage concept helped launch Enlightenment theories of social development; The language of sociology makes morally unsanctioned behavior unspeakable and thus unthinkable — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 601; Sociology treats social learning as the unexamined root of all human morality — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 601 (+11 more)

Related

• Modern societal organization can weaken moral drives and make immorality more plausible (similarity 0.87)
• Sociology treats social learning as the unexamined root of all human morality (similarity 0.87)
• Sociology mirrored modern society by banishing ethical problematics from its discourse (similarity 0.85)
• Social organization displaces autonomous moral drive with instrumental and procedural rationality (similarity 0.85)
• Durkheim’s sociology holds that all morality originates in society’s coercive civilizing force (similarity 0.84)
• Sociology reduces morality to derivative products of non-moral social institutions (similarity 0.84)
• Socialization manipulates but never produces moral capacity (similarity 0.84)
• Durkheim’s framework equates morality with social origin, leaving only animal drives as alternative (similarity 0.82)
• Morality precedes society and society merely manipulates an already-existing moral structure (similarity 0.82)
• Moral capacity arises socially but not from societal institutions (similarity 0.82)
• Organizations suppress morality because it cannot be rationalized (similarity 0.81)
• Moral responsibility can compel insubordination to socially upheld principles (similarity 0.81)
• The language of sociology makes morally unsanctioned behavior unspeakable and thus unthinkable (similarity 0.81)
• Modern society weakens morality through distance, technical responsibility, and segregation (similarity 0.80)
• Moral violations get theorized as production failures within a factory metaphor of society (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Morality precedes society and society merely manipulates an already-existing moral structure #contradicts (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 514
• Social organization neutralizes morality by making action adiaphoric, neither good nor evil #contradicts (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 613
• Modern societal organization can weaken moral drives and make immorality more plausible #complicates (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 566
• Sociology reduces morality to derivative products of non-moral social institutions #complicates (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 481
• Modern society weakens morality through distance, technical responsibility, and segregation #complicates (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 567
• Social organization displaces autonomous moral drive with instrumental and procedural rationality #complicates (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 612
• Moral responsibility can compel insubordination to socially upheld principles #complicates (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 495
• Religions must be judged by social standards based on social ethics #expands (0.75) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1264