The social construction of character

Moulin‐Stożek, Daniel

doi:10.1111/jtsb.12188

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“…Similar, MacIntyre ( 2007) also claims that virtues are learned and developed in a social context by practicing being virtuous through our relationships with others. Since the performance of virtues is co-constructed socially, we need to know the context and social actors' reasoning for their actions to evaluate their virtue (Moulin-Stożek 2019). This is in line with social constructionist views of reality that emphasize the construction of society, including ourselves, through social interaction.…”

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Perspectives of key stakeholders on essential virtues for good scientific practice in research areas

Tomić

Buljan

Marušić

2021

Accountability in Research

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In contrast to the principle-based approach to ethics and research integrity (ERI) training, which stresses the importance of following moral rules, the virtue-based approach focuses on developing good character traits. This study has aimed to explore what virtues mean in scientific practice and their suitable place in ERI training, using a qualitative approach. Two faceto-face focus group discussions were conducted with 21 participants. Heterogeneous purposive sampling was used to reach participants from different countries, organization types (academia, research, publishing, private sector), scientific disciplines and stages of their scientific careers. Data generated during the focus group discussions were analyzed using a reflexive thematic analysis approach, and three main themes were developed. The first theme addressed the relativity of virtue meanings because the participants differed in their definitions and understandings of the concept of virtue. The second theme referred to the acquisition of virtues through social interactions because participants saw virtues mostly as social constructs acquired through socialization and education. The third theme addressed the differences in the importance of particular virtues in research. Participants felt that particular virtues were more important than others because some of them are necessary for responsible research, and some are not.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Perspectives of key stakeholders on essential virtues for good scientific practice in research areas

Tomić

Buljan

Marušić

2021

Accountability in Research

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“…Jaturapol ([200,201]) recognises that political systems are complex and involve uncertainty (for instance in decision-making), as well as being adaptive. For Kim [202], adaptive processes need to move beyond behaviouralist explanations that centre on tangible aspects of a situation, requiring access to intangible cognitive structures, for instance, where dispositions coalesce into clusters of traits [203]. Such traits can be demonstrably underpinned by values [160] when they act as imperatives for behaviour [33,196].…”

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Culture, Mindset and Functionality in Regional Organisations – A Study on ASEAN and the European Union

Rautakivi¹,

Yolles²

2023

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Regional organisations (ROs) are important in that they can enable states in their regions to pros-per and develop for improvement. Interest here lies in the European Union (EU) and the Associa-tion of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). Their political development involves complex process-es for collective actions involving ingroup member RO states. To explore development, we firstly examine the rise of both the EU and ASEAN. The literature gives some attention to the behaviour-alist political approach to explain developmental differences using social organisation theory, often in terms of the Gemeinschaft-Gesellschaft paradigm of Tönnies. However, here we adopt a social psychology approach that distinguishes between operative structure (which directly determines behaviour), and substructure (housing normative personality deemed to be responsible for behav-ioural imperatives). This enables a relationship to be made between the Tönnies paradigm and the Collectivism-Individualism paradigm of Triandis. The theoretical approach adopted involves a complex adaptive systems model deriving from metacybernetics, and this also delivers Mindset Agency Theory as a qualitative methodology. Consistent with the general view, it is shown that the EU is more or less a coherent rational organisation, while ASEAN is more idealistic delivering pragmatic paradox. In particular, ASEAN is frequently descried as an organisation with contra-dictions, and for this reason its pathologies are explored in some detail

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“…This way (after all caught into biology) of understanding the formation of habits and their preservation, does not fail to denounce a serious deficiency, because individuals don't seem to have, to such a degree, neither the autonomy nor the adaptability that are attributed to them from enactivism. The influence of the social environment, the actions and habits of other individuals as well as a degree of persuasion or constriction from positions of power, are some of the elements that seem to be left aside, because if an individual follows a form of life, being as she is in a society, that form of life will be shared and reinforced by the contact and perception of other individuals of that society (see an account of this necessary relationship of identity between individual and social groups in a recent paper of Moulin‐Stożek, ). And what is even more important, this form of life is not necessarily the best for the individual in isolation but for the group or community to which it belongs or from which such a form of life emerges.…”

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Actions, habits and forms of life

Garrido

2020

J Theory Soc Behav

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After a survey on the work of prominent philosophers within the Western tradition, it can be noticed a tendency to view habits as automatic, unfree and unconscious behaviour. In this context, this article attempts to show that habits are actually much closer to the characteristics that are otherwise attributed to actions. That is, following the dialectical approach of Sartre, I develop arguments to support that habits are conscious actions carried out with a sense of identification towards the form of life that actions, in turn, project as a whole; in this way, each form of life requires a set of habits that the agent performs freely and rationally, understanding the latter as the dialectical procedure by which the act itself brings about a totalizing identity. This vision implies that habits are interrelated and codependent within a network of social behavior, so they cannot be discarded without discarding the form of life to which they belong. That is, a change of habit requires a change in the totality of which it is a part. But that change can only occur if social agents become aware that their habits are a product of their free acceptance and not of necessity. In the article, this latter is paradigmatically exemplified by neoliberal capitalism as a form of life.

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The social construction of character

Cited by 24 publications

References 47 publications

Perspectives of key stakeholders on essential virtues for good scientific practice in research areas

Perspectives of key stakeholders on essential virtues for good scientific practice in research areas

Culture, Mindset and Functionality in Regional Organisations – A Study on ASEAN and the European Union

Actions, habits and forms of life

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