Moral Conflict

When Social Worlds Collide
1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-7619-0053-5
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Moral Conflict, the subject of this book is passionate and difficult to resolve. Responses that are normally effective such as explaining, persuading, and compromising can make matters worse and drive people further apart in such conflicts. Moral conflicts occur when incommensurate social realities come to clash. Disputes about abortion, religion in politics and education, legal rights for homosexuals, and environmental politics are issues in which well-intentioned parties have created polarized and diverse patterns of communication. The most virtuous actions of each side not only fail, but widen the schism. Such conflicts require us to find forms of communication that go beyond our normal ways of dealing with disagreement. In an original synthesis of communication theory and their own research, W. Barnett Pearce and Stephen W. Littlejohn describe a dialectical tension between the expression and suppression of conflict that can be transcended in ways that lead to personal growth and productive patterns of social action. In Moral Conflict several projects are described as practical examples of these new ways of working through difficult struggles.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pearce, W. Barnett

Pearce, W. (Walter) Barnett

Littlejohn, Stephen W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART ONE: MORAL CONFLICT
Discovering Moral Conflict
Understanding Conflict
The Problem of Moral Conflict
PART TWO: COMMUNICATION AND THE EXPRESSION OF DIFFERENCE
The Quality of Public Discourse
Patterns of Expressing Difference
Fighting and Making Peace
PART THREE: TOWARD A TRANSCENDENT DISCOURSE
New Forms of Eloquence
Model Projects in Transcendent Discourse
Achieving Transcendence

Über Autor(innen)

Littlejohn, Stephen W.
Stephen Littlejohn (Ph.D., University of Utah), is a conflict management consultant, mediator, facilitator, and trainer. He is consultant for the Public Dialogue Consortium and a partner in Domenici Littlejohn, Inc. Stephen is co-author of Moral Conflict: When Social Worlds Collide (Sage, 1997) and has written numerous other books and articles on communication and conflict. He was a professor of communication at Humboldt State University in California and is currently Adjunct Professor of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico. He has done research on mediation and conflict management for 19 years and has been an active mediator for eight. Stephen has been a consultant for such clients as the Waco Youth Summit, the Alliance for Constructive Communication, the City of Cupertino, Columbia Basin College, and Washington State University.