Sociology treats social learning as the unexamined root of all human morality

Evidence

For the sociologists at least, society is the root of everything human and everything human comes into existence through social learning. Hardly ever do we have occasion to argue the case explicitly. For all we care, the matter had been resolved before it could be discussed: its resolution had founded the language that constitutes our distinctively sociological discourse. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 601

Categorization

• XREF: This is Bauman’s diagnosis of the socialization paradigm inherited from Hobbes and Durkheim — the very paradigm later Islamophobia-critique readings (and Bauman’s own modernity-work) will puncture. — connects to: Sociology reduces morality to derivative products of non-moral social institutions — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 481; Morality precedes society and society merely manipulates an already-existing moral structure — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 514; Orthodox sociology assumes social regulation produces morality and restrains savagery — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 47 (+6 more)

Related

• Socialization manipulates but never produces moral capacity (similarity 0.90)
• Durkheim’s sociology holds that all morality originates in society’s coercive civilizing force (similarity 0.88)
• Orthodox sociology assumes social regulation produces morality and restrains savagery (similarity 0.87)
• Sociology mirrored modern society by banishing ethical problematics from its discourse (similarity 0.87)
• Sociology reduces morality to derivative products of non-moral social institutions (similarity 0.85)
• Morality precedes society and society merely manipulates an already-existing moral structure (similarity 0.85)
• Moral capacity arises socially but not from societal institutions (similarity 0.84)
• The language of sociology makes morally unsanctioned behavior unspeakable and thus unthinkable (similarity 0.84)
• Durkheim reduces all morality to the single need for social integration (similarity 0.84)
• Durkheim’s framework equates morality with social origin, leaving only animal drives as alternative (similarity 0.83)
• Modern societal organization can weaken moral drives and make immorality more plausible (similarity 0.82)
• Sociology fortifies a faithless faith in the very reality whose victims people are (similarity 0.81)
• Social organization displaces autonomous moral drive with instrumental and procedural rationality (similarity 0.79)
• Academic sociology has structurally avoided engaging the Holocaust as a disciplinary challenge. (similarity 0.79)
• Individual moral judgment can remain intact without any supporting social rules (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Sociology reduces morality to derivative products of non-moral social institutions #corroborates (0.90) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 481
• Morality precedes society and society merely manipulates an already-existing moral structure #contradicts (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 514
• Orthodox sociology assumes social regulation produces morality and restrains savagery #expands (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 47
• Socialization manipulates but never produces moral capacity #qualifies (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 498
• Sociology treats psychological processes only as carriers of social forms #corroborates (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 208
• Moral capacity arises socially but not from societal institutions #qualifies (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 499