Is community compatible with autonomy? Some comments to Joan Miller's research on differing moralities in India and the United States (2005)
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Abstract
This chapter discusses Joan Miller's research on differing moralities in India and the United States. Relevant cross-cultural differences were demonstrated by Joan Miller's research, which seem to imply a negative answer to the question of whether community is compatible with autonomy. The chapter illustrates the priority of autonomy in the case of the Americans who tend to decide for themselves in most social situations whether they are willing to give help or not, considering the urgency of the need, their closeness to the person in need, and whether the person requesting help would give help in a similar situation. Only in the cases of serious need and within close relationships is help regarded as obligatory. Indians, in contrast, are characterized as behaving in a community-oriented way, because they tend to help everybody who is a member of the in-group, except for the cases of low need situations. This means that everybody who belongs to the in-group receives more or less all kinds of help requested. Outside the in-group, help is only given rarely.
Bibliographic entry
Krappmann, L. (2005). Is community compatible with autonomy? Some comments to Joan Miller's research on differing moralities in India and the United States. In W. Edelstein & G. Nunner-Winkler (Eds.), Morality in context (Advances in psychology No. 137) (pp. 313-316). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
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| Publication year | 2005 | |
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| Document type: | In book | |
| Publication status: | Published | |
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