Utilitarian sociology reduces the other to an obstacle to the actor’s goals.
Evidence
Within this common perspective, the significance of the other is fully exhausted by his impact on the actor’s chance of reaching his purpose. The other matters in as far (and only in as far) as his fickleness and inconstancy detracts from the probability that the pursuit of the given end will be efficiently completed. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 502
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Sociology and economics rest on opposite models of the actor. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 8; Moral behaviour springs from the Other’s powerless demand, not from sanctions — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 611
Related
- Sociology and economics rest on opposite models of the actor. (similarity 0.80)
- Sociology fortifies a faithless faith in the very reality whose victims people are (similarity 0.79)
- Sociology reduces morality to derivative products of non-moral social institutions (similarity 0.79)
- Sociology mirrored modern society by banishing ethical problematics from its discourse (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Moral behaviour springs from the Other’s powerless demand, not from sanctions
#contradicts(0.82) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 611 - Sociology and economics rest on opposite models of the actor.
#contradicts(0.75) — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 8