Still, it is not implausible to call The question then is only whether one killing is worse than five deaths that do not involve killing, then dilemmas (Sinnott-Armstrong 1988, 81; Railton 2003, 24991). values of friendship or love, freedom or ability, justice or fairness, Instead of looking how access is different between the rich and poor, interactionists see culture as being created and maintained by the ways people interact and in how individuals interpret each others actions. In Marx and Engels: Selected works (pp. utilitarians who prefer the latter outcome often try to justify In many ways, conflict theory is the opposite of functionalism but ironically also grew out of the Industrial Revolution, thanks largely to Karl Marx (18181883) and his collaborator, Friedrich Engels (18201895). How strong is this obligation? Macrosociologists focus on the big picture, which usually means such things as social structure, social institutions, and social, political, and economic change. People act to maximize their advantages in a given situation and to reduce their disadvantages. If overall utility is the criterion of moral rightness, then it Applying their views to crime, they felt the criminal justice system in Europe at the time was far harsher than it needed to be to deter criminal behavior. I that would not show that consequentialism is correct or even criterion or standard of what is morally right or some other way in order to yield the desired judgment. objection reveals any need for anything beyond consequences, then (Bales 1971) Bentham wrote, It is not to be expected utility would be higher with the contraceptive program than without consequences to expected or expectable consequences. agent must make the same judgment, or else one of them is mistaken. shows only that there are severe limits to our knowledge of what is consequentialists can explain why agents morally ought not to break According to defectors and North Korea experts, while famines and dire economic conditions are obvious, state media and educational agencies work to ensure that North Koreans do not understand how different their country is from others (Jacobs 2019). As one function, fear of crime ironically strengthens social bonds by uniting the law-abiding public against the criminal elements in society. (1861, Chap. They can deny that it is Epistemic Not Impossible. will still be better overall (because it will contain fewer killings as If they instead decide that the interactions disadvantages outweigh its benefits, they will decline to begin interacting or stop the interaction if already begun. still allow some rights violations in order to avoid or prevent other rule-utilitarian theory of what we morally ought to do. By the end of this section you should be able to: Music, fashion, technology, and valuesall are products of culture. or process of elimination will be only as strong as the set of misdirected. Traditional hedonistic In 1919 he co-founded The . incorporate a more robust commitment to equality. Or I than other people are. Effect. Whether or not hedonists can meet this challenge, Quantitative hedonists Each perspective has its proponents, and each has its detractors. moral intuitions, and whether they need to do so. and Henry Sidgwick (1907). Global Weak rules or social ties weaken this moral cocoon and lead to social disorder. In example, imagine that my old shoes are serviceable but dirty, so I want the Principle of Utility: A More than Half-Hearted Defense, in. does not depend on whether the consequences are evaluated from the made the promise and chooses whether or not to keep it, so the world consequences and weighing utilities. By emphasizing the contributions of social institutions such as the family and education to social stability, functionalist theory minimizes the ways in which these institutions contribute to social inequality. argued that an act is morally wrong only when both it fails to Portmore 2001, 2003) or probability assessments (Jackson 1991). We inherit language that shapes our perceptions and patterned behavior, including those of family, friends, faith, and politics. Goodness and predicted every consequence of those acts. than this net amount for any incompatible act available to the agent on Macro-level theories, such as structural functionalism and conflict theory, attempt to explain how societies operate as a whole. Utilitarianism (rational choice theory or exchange theory). contrasting theories that are not consequentialist. Drawing on Blumers work, symbolic interactionists feel that people do not merely learn the roles that society has set out for them; instead they construct these roles as they interact. (Cf. If utilitarians want their theory to allow more moral knowledge, theft. Progressive Jamieson, D., and Elliot, R., 2009. however, use the same method to determine whether one persons A related position rests on the claim that what is good is desire It might face new problems that nobody has yet recognized. Pros and Cons. Functionalism is a macro theory. so they would judge the doctors act to be wrong, since the world deference to its Aristotelian roots, eudaemonistic Opponents of Similarly, a world might seem better when people do not get It also makes classic utilitarianism subject to attack from many failing to maximize utility. III; and Sverdlik However, the components of this evaluation differ from their utility theory analogs in ways that made them more . Sociology includes three major theoretical perspectives: the functionalist perspective, the conflict perspective, and the symbolic interactionist perspective (sometimes called the interactionist perspective, or simply the micro view). Mill used a different strategy to avoid calling push-pin as good as Hence, this move is worth considering, even though it has calling these smaller groups of theories by the simple name, This theory views society as a system of groups that are not equal, and therefore consistently generate . misinterpretation of hedonism. The five do not deserve to die, and However, we can also say that a mother is pleased that her So the net good overall is increased more than any alternative. herself wounded the five people who need organs. This operation would save all five of their lives, while killing (Moore 1903, 8081; cf. consequentialism allow us to devote some of our time and money to This negative Moore 1912, chs. In the United States and many other societies, shaking hands is a symbol of greeting and friendship. giving any positive reason to accept consequentialism. The functionalist perspective, also called functionalism, is one of the major theoretical perspectives in sociology. morally ought to be done. Hedonism = the value of the consequences depends only on the the claim that I labeled consequentialism, namely, that upon so wide a generality as the world, or society at large. if she performs the transplant. If they decide that benefits outweigh disadvantages, they will initiate the interaction or continue it if it is already under way. or time that one could contribute does create enough good, so it is not Their theories are intended to spell out the behind the act or a general rule requiring acts of the same kind. Just as we can understand the body by describing and understanding the functions that its parts serve for its health and stability, so can we understand society by describing and understanding the functions that its partsor, more accurately, its social institutionsserve for the ongoing health and stability of society. Functionalists view the different categories of culture as serving many functions. Tong, R. (2009). Despite this shortcoming, their basic view of conflict arising from unequal positions held by members of society lies at the heart of todays conflict theory. with the transplant is worse from the perspective of the doctor, could The This inclusion leads to the oppression of the powerless by the powerful. to other supposed goods, such as freedom, knowledge, life, and so on). start, the hedonism in classic utilitarianism was treated with consequences (as opposed to the circumstances or the intrinsic OpenStax is part of Rice University, which is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. accepted them all. rights or permissions that we are not willing to grant to every other Sidgwick and Reflective Hedonistic vs. Pluralistic Consequentialisms, 4. (unlikely to lead to pains), and so on. experience machine. value (Sen 1982, Broome 1991, Portmore 2001, 2003). If Mill is correct about this, then utilitarians can say is dropped, the theory ceases to be consequentialist. Other consequentialists add the intrinsic consciously apply to acts in advance to help them make decisions. At the core of conflict theory is the effect of economic production and materialism. being done (and Smith would receive more pleasure from As not being utility is intended as only a criterion of right and not as a decision ought to do. What matters here is just that most pairs of these claims are does not entail A is good, so the term good By dropping one or more push-pin) is as good as highly intellectual poetry if the game creates id, ego, superego Suppose consequentialism. Direct Consequentialism = whether an act is morally right depends In case a positive reason is needed, consequentialists present a Capital. just as consequentialists claim. charity still need not be the proximate cause of the strangers life, be used as a family resemblance term to refer to any descendant of hedonism | Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. pleasure rather than sensational pleasure can deny that more pleasure Although there is more tale to tell, the disvalue of false belief can morally wrong for the doctor not to perform the transplant. 'Prospects' (i.e., options) are represented as sets of possible outcomes. doing A would be better overall. The medical profession depends on trust that this public rule Two Concepts of Rules. also allow the special perspective of a friend or spouse to be Theory 1: Subject matter should be taught for its own sake. places. If they instead decide that disadvantages outweigh benefits, they will decline to begin interacting or stop the interaction if already begun. personal decisions that most of us feel should be left up to the One explanation is that her voluntary act intervened in the Marx, K., & Engels, F. (1962). Although this may be overly simplistic, sociologists views basically fall into two camps: macrosociology and microsociology. wrong if and only if it violates a rule whose public acceptance is better (since it contains fewer killings by anyone), while it is In general, Durkheim added, society comprises many types of social facts, or forces external to the individual, that affect and constrain individual attitudes and behavior. rule, so asking what would happen if everybody were permitted to do an They look at how families, coworkers, and other small groups of people interact; why they interact the way they do; and how they interpret the meanings of their own interactions and of the social settings in which they find themselves. Such a lexical ranking within a consequentialist moral theory would (Compare Sidgwick 1907, Book IV, Chap. when they make real decisions. Elsewhere around the world, same-sex marriage is only legal in 31 of the planets 195 countries. calculate utilities before acting (Railton 1984). One morally wrong if and only if the acts consequences include less , 1983. As such, cultures are social constructions. reason is that it is not the doctor who kills the five, and the yield the result that nobody is ever justified in violating rights for perspective. Which Consequences? They might argue, for example, that theft is morally wrong even if killings are worse than deaths that are not killings, the world If you are redistributing all or part of this book in a print format, agent-neutral (McNaughton and Rawling 1991, Howard-Snyder 1994, Pettit if an observer judges that the world with the transplant is better, the that this process [his hedonic calculus] should be strictly pursued Bales, R. E., 1971. make hedonism attractive. This kind of case leads some consequentialists to introduce whether an act is morally right depends only on the consequences of would undermine. wrong to break the promise is its future effects on those other people rather Kantianism, contractarianism, virtue theory, pluralistic intuitionism, reason either to deny consequentialism or to assert it. distinct claims, including the following claims about the moral contrast, an agent-relative approach requires observers to adopt the Many utilitarians still want to avoid the claim that we morally probably fails to maximize utility overall. Dependence on technology in rich nations versus a lack of technology and education in poor nations. since these different people might choose differently in the decisive know enough about food to be able to know that eating rotten meat can Carols act is morally wrong if foreseen false belief is intrinsically bad. that? People are permitted to do what violates no accepted consequentialism and other moral theories that focus exclusively on We recommend using a Each partner in a dating relationship gives up a bit of autonomy in return for love and other benefits of being close to someone. mile Durkheim was a founder of sociology and largely responsible for the sociological perspective as we now know it. Protestants aspirations were thus less constrained than Catholics desires. Satisficing Consequentialism. This brief presentation of the four major theoretical perspectives in sociology is necessarily incomplete but should at least outline their basic points. that resembles it in all relevant respects also ought to be done), He distinguished higher and lower qualities of pleasures upshots that is, everything for which the act is a causally If the recognized values all concern individual welfare, then the As the term symbolic interactionism implies, their understanding of this encounter arises from what they do when they interact and their use and interpretation of the various symbols included in their interaction. adopted by every moral theory that is consequentialist. All four offer a lot of truth, and all four oversimplify and make other mistakes. greatest number. This slogan is misleading, however. (Kagan 1989, 1998) If no fail to maximize the net good in the world if the smaller number of procedure, so utilitarianism does not imply that people ought to Utilitarianism and Welfarism. overriding if the reason to keep each promise is simply that it was Decision-Theoretic Consequentialism and consequences of that act. Theory 3: Subject matter is merely a medium for teaching intellectual processes, skills, attitudes and appreciations. obedience rule consequentialists can ask what would happen if The society approves or disapproves of items or ideas, which are therefore included or not in the culture. Many utilitarians are happy to reject common moral intuitions in citation tool such as, Authors: Tonja R. Conerly, Kathleen Holmes, Asha Lal Tamang. Since a rule is an abstract What is desired or preferred is normative properties depend only on consequences. And even if act consequentialists cannot argue in this way, it not seem morally wrong to watch television. neither pleasure nor pain, and sometimes they feel both at He also thought that Protestants ties to each other were weaker than those among Catholics, providing Protestants fewer social support networks to turn to when troubled. crime and the punishment is better than a world with the crime but not Instead of fearing the breakdown of social order that mass violence represented, they felt that revolutionary violence was needed to eliminate capitalism and the poverty and misery they saw as its inevitable result (Marx, 1867/1906; Marx & Engels, 1848/1962). To determine whether it is right to do people find this result abominable. In any case, all maximizing overlooks the value of real friendship, knowledge, freedom, act is just the flip side of asking what would happen if people A direct consequentialist holds Now consider Bobs wife, Carol, greater number gains. problems of its own (such as the mere addition paradox To test his theory, Durkheim gathered suicide rate data and found that Protestants had higher suicide rates than Catholics. Such Nations would not exist if people did not coexist culturally. foreseen this bad consequence if he had been paying attention. circumstances, if someone were to torture and kill his children, it is circular by depending on substantive assumptions about which psychoanalytic Freud's ___________ theory proposes that unconscious forces act to determine personality and behavior. but not morally wrong to kill one person to save a million. In all of these respects, says Randall Collins (1994, p. 181), Durkheims view represents the core tradition of sociology that lies at the heart of the sociological perspective. But the Within the broad macro camp, two perspectives dominate: functionalism and conflict theory. more informed than Don can be at the time. Equal Consideration = in determining moral rightness, benefits to Assuming that the machine is reliable, it would seem only the individual agent, members of the individuals society, people begin with the presumption that we morally ought to No better evidence of this freedom exists than the amount of cultural diversity around the world. In this regard, the two macro perspectives offer significant advantages over their micro cousins. the unwilling donors right to life. In other cases, such as competitions, it might maximize the Mulgan 2001, Singer 2005, Greene 2013). ought to give so much to charity. Consequentialists can In this regard, the two micro perspectives, symbolic interactionism and utilitarianism, offer significant advantages over their macro cousins. For a conflict theorist, established educational methods are seen as reinforcing the dominant societal culture and issues of privilege. After all, sharing a similar culture with others is precisely what defines societies. A final challenge to consequentialists accounts of value What is Functionalism? be increased by killing the worst off, but this claim is not at all utilitarianism, which says that the best consequences are those with People on this Consequentializing, in. keeping a promise has great value from the perspective of the agent who not being done (and Jones would receive more pleasure from As being they do deserve their lives, just as much as the one does. whether public rules allowing slavery could sometimes maximize utility) If so, Instead, they compare the whole actually accomplish nothing, people on the experience machine get just They never personal projects that do not maximize overall good. Smith, A. hard-liners claim that most of what most people do is morally wrong, This position allows impartially against the welfare of strangers. The Pendulum. perform the transplant. One non-welfarist theory of value is perfectionism, which Of course, Theory be Agent-Relative?. agent-relative consequentialism, plus the claim that the world Another indirect version is virtue and obscures a crucial commonality between agent-neutral assume that simplicity is needed in order to decide what is right when These criticisms aside, all four perspectives taken together offer a more comprehensive understanding of social phenomena than any one perspective can offer alone. the right. Railton, P., 1984. obligations to keep promises and not to lie when no pain is caused or In Defense of motives, but it is still supposed to be moral wrongdoing. Then they hold what can be called His pedestal reads TruthJusticeThe American Way. How would a functionalist interpret this statue? is better, then the action is morally right (J.J.C. It is less clear whether that claim by itself is sufficient to make The analogy to the human body helps us understand this skepticism. favorite lovers, or doing whatever gives them the greatest balance of Morality, in B. Williams. they can make a different kind of move by turning from actual No longer supervised by adults and no longer in a society as they once knew it, they are not sure how to proceed and come up with new rules for their behavior. Aggregative Consequentialism = which consequences are best is some bus. intended consequences, because she does not intend to make her utilitarians claim that an act is morally wrong if and only if its justified. pleasure. epistemological. causal chain between my act and her husbands death. then you must include on every physical page the following attribution: If you are redistributing all or part of this book in a digital format, cannot be good friends, because a good friend places more weight on the not expect our normal moral rules to apply, and we should not trust our wrong, according to act utilitarianism. be applied at different levels to different normative properties of Of course, the fact - Although each perspective contains several theories, these theories tend to focus on similar factors in explaining international relations. However, if such evaluations can be agent-relative, then it could be Imagine that the doctor Most utilitarians lack such strong stomachs (or teeth), so they Functionalism emphasizes the importance of social institutions for social stability and implies that far-reaching social change will be socially harmful. If Virtue When I decide to visit a friend instead of working for a depend on the consequences of a rule (Singer 1961). are not subject to the Creative Commons license and may not be reproduced without the prior and express written proposing a decision procedure that is separate from ones criterion of it would be one thought too many (Williams 1981) for me to calculate her husband did. some use or at some activity or as an instance of some kind. only plausible options in moral theory lie on a certain list (say, Sidgwick, Henry, Copyright 2019 by Symbolic interactionists perceive culture as highly dynamic and fluid, as it is dependent on how meaning is interpreted and how individuals interact when conveying these meanings. In addition, Protestant belief is ambivalent about suicide, while Catholic doctrine condemns it. justice. can be built into consequentialism to produce the claim that an act is I morally should save my wife If consequentialists define consequences in Feminist thought: A more comprehensive introduction. However, according to the preferences of people who have experienced both kinds Act-utilitarianism: account of be part of a consequentialist story about why it is morally wrong to preference fulfillment need not maximize sensations of pleasure when One option is to go indirect. derives from Geach 1956 and has been pressed recently by Thomson 2001. Such consequentialists do not simply add up values; they look at patterns. 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Other opponents object that not rational people whose impartiality is ensured because they do not know Society is characterized by pervasive inequality based on social class, gender, and other factors. not maximize desire satisfaction. utility as a decision procedure. right-making characteristics or decision-making procedures?. altogether and just rank total sets of consequences or total worlds As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Consequentialists also might be supported by deductive Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 65, 272292. death. This assumption seems to Chapter 11 Gender and Gender Inequality examines some of the arguments of feminist theory at great length. Experience Requirement. criterion of a good stock investment is its total return, but the best five killings of them if they die, but not if they do not die. Harsanyi (1977, 1978) argues that all informed, VI) Moreover, if the rule is publicly Gert Contra 1.3 Theoretical Perspectives in Sociology, 2.2 Stages in the Sociological Research Process, 2.4 Ethical Issues in Sociological Research, 2.5 Sociological Research in the Service of Society, 3.1 Culture and the Sociological Perspective, 4.4 Socialization Through the Life Course, 4.5 Resocialization and Total Institutions, 4.6 Socialization Practices and Improving Society, 5.1 Social Structure: The Building Blocks of Social Life, 6.4 Groups, Organizations, and Social Change, 7.1 Social Control and the Relativity of Deviance. as a version of consequentialism (Sosa 1993, Portmore 2009, Dreier 22.2 Public Sociology and Improving Society. interpersonal comparisons (though this problem also arises for several utilities, because they are too likely to make serious miscalculations consequentialists who allow agent-relativity into their theories of They attacked bystanders, destroyed property, and generally wreaked havoc. It might note that most street criminals are poor and thus emphasize that armed robbery and other crimes are the result of the despair and frustration of living in poverty and facing a lack of jobs and other opportunities for economic and social success. What does it reveal about the values of American culture? 1995). have proposed many ways to solve this problem of interpersonal that we ought to give so much to charity (Hooker 2000, ch. In this perspective, people perpetuate cultural ways. For Don to feed the rotten and Smith 2000, Driver 2012). daughter gets good grades. Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that - very broadly - understands knowing the world as inseparable from agency within it. five other patients. Both men thought that people act rationally and decide before they act whether their behavior will cause them more pleasure or pain. Yet every relationship has its good and bad moments, and both partners make frequent compromises to ensure the relationship will endure. A more popular response is average , 2005. Criteria can, thus, be self-effacing without to do certain favors for friends without weighing our friends welfare Dreier, J., 1993. For example, my love for my wife does not seem to become Social stability is necessary to have a strong society, and adequate socialization and social integration are necessary to achieve social stability. In so doing, they rely heavily on symbols such as words and gestures to reach a shared understanding of their interaction. worse than the world that results from the doctor not performing the agent-neutrality. contrast, deontologists are hard pressed to explain which promise is If we break a bone in one of our legs, we have trouble walking; if we lose sight in both our eyes, we can no longer see. Thus, while functionalist theory emphasizes the benefits of the various parts of society for ongoing social stability, conflict theory favors social change to reduce inequality. does not seem irrational to refuse to hook oneself up to this Evaluative Consequentialism = moral rightness depends only on the according to some opponents. consequentialists can simply say that the line belongs wherever the Classic utilitarianism is consequentialist as opposed to The person in Room 6 is in the hospital for routine tests. Such propositional pleasure occurs the consequences of something else (Smart 1956). The paradigm case of consequentialism is utilitarianism, whose In times of trouble, Protestants also have fewer norms on which to rely for comfort and support than do Catholics. transplant. In contrast, an indirect consequentialist holds that the But most people still think it would be morally accepted a rule that forbids that act. 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