LEADER 03869nam 22006375 450 001 9911015971003321 005 20250722130257.0 010 $a3-031-97560-X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-97560-8 035 $a(CKB)39698536500041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32227326 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32227326 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-97560-8 035 $a(EXLCZ)9939698536500041 100 $a20250722d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAddressing South Africa's Moral Crisis $eSociety, Moral Identity, and the Psycho-Social Dynamics of Post-Apartheid South Africa /$fby Nico Vorster 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Springer,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (303 pages) 311 08$a3-031-97559-6 327 $aChapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Moral capacity -- Chapter 3. Basic Need pressures -- Chapter 4. Systemic social pressures -- Chapter 5. Distorted motivational dispositions -- Chapter 6. Distorted behavioral responses -- Chapter 7. Moral identity and virtue -- Chapter 8. Alleviating need pressures and creating opportunities -- Chapter 9. Transmitting and protecting values. 330 $aThis book attempts to understand and address the psycho-social dynamics behind South Africa?s moral crisis. It describes South Africa as afflicted by state capture, violence, corruption, and the looting of state infrastructure thirty years after the establishment of democracy. It then provides a holistic, social diagnosis of this problem that integrates the findings of different disciplines into an overall picture of the forces at work in South Africa's collective moral decline. Ultimately, this book engages with the deeper psycho-social phenomena behind South Africa?s moral decline, arguing that the diagnostic question of why this moral decline has taken place must be answered before turning to the normative question of what ought to happen in this situation. Accordingly, this book explores themes regarding the innate moral capacities of the human person, the effects of need pressures and systemic pressures on ethical decision-making, and the phenomena of distorted motivational drives and distorted behavioral responses. It shows how the framing of virtue-centered moral identities might act as buffers against moral disengagement strategies and assist in promoting pro-social behavior. It then specifies the macro-social changes required to create such an ethical-social climate. The book is of interest to social scientists, ethicists, behavioral scientists, educators, theologians, and moral philosophers. In the end, this case study of South Africa shows us more broadly how maintaining public morality and social cohesion is a challenge that most modern societies face. . 606 $aPolitical science$xPhilosophy 606 $aEthics 606 $aPolitical ethics 606 $aSocial psychology 606 $aSociology 606 $aPolitical Philosophy 606 $aMoral Philosophy and Applied Ethics 606 $aPolitical Ethics 606 $aSocial Psychology 606 $aSociology 615 0$aPolitical science$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aEthics. 615 0$aPolitical ethics. 615 0$aSocial psychology. 615 0$aSociology. 615 14$aPolitical Philosophy. 615 24$aMoral Philosophy and Applied Ethics. 615 24$aPolitical Ethics. 615 24$aSocial Psychology. 615 24$aSociology. 676 $a320.01 700 $aVorster$b Nico$01834532 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911015971003321 996 $aAddressing South Africa's Moral Crisis$94410020 997 $aUNINA