Socialization manipulates but never produces moral capacity

Evidence

The process of socialization consists in the manipulation of moral capacity – not in its production. And the moral capacity that is manipulated entails not only certain principles which later become a passive object of social processing; it includes as well the ability to resist, escape and survive the processing, so that at the end of the day the authority and the responsibility for moral choices rests where they resided at the start: with the human person. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 498

Categorization

• DEFINE: Bauman’s core definitional move: socialization as manipulation of a pre-existing moral capacity, not its production — a key toolkit concept.
• XREF: connects to: Sociology treats social learning as the unexamined root of all human morality — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 601; Biology represents what social engineering cannot yet alter — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 186; Moral capacity arises socially but not from societal institutions — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 499 (+4 more)

Related

• Moral capacity arises socially but not from societal institutions (similarity 0.90)
• Sociology treats social learning as the unexamined root of all human morality (similarity 0.90)
• Social organization displaces autonomous moral drive with instrumental and procedural rationality (similarity 0.86)
• Morality precedes society and society merely manipulates an already-existing moral structure (similarity 0.86)
• Sociology reduces morality to derivative products of non-moral social institutions (similarity 0.85)
• Durkheim’s sociology holds that all morality originates in society’s coercive civilizing force (similarity 0.85)
• Moral resistance is personal while immorality requires social production (similarity 0.84)
• Modern societal organization can weaken moral drives and make immorality more plausible (similarity 0.84)
• Orthodox sociology assumes social regulation produces morality and restrains savagery (similarity 0.84)
• Moral violations get theorized as production failures within a factory metaphor of society (similarity 0.82)
• Durkheim’s framework equates morality with social origin, leaving only animal drives as alternative (similarity 0.82)
• Sociology mirrored modern society by banishing ethical problematics from its discourse (similarity 0.81)
• Durkheim reduces all morality to the single need for social integration (similarity 0.81)
• Organizations suppress morality because it cannot be rationalized (similarity 0.81)
• Biology represents what social engineering cannot yet alter (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Moral capacity arises socially but not from societal institutions #corroborates (0.90) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 499
• Social organization displaces autonomous moral drive with instrumental and procedural rationality #expands (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 612
• Morality precedes society and society merely manipulates an already-existing moral structure #corroborates (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 514
• Sociology reduces morality to derivative products of non-moral social institutions #expands (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 481