Grasping the Big Sociological Picture Shaping the Moral Lives of College Students Today

Autor/in	Smith, Christian
Titel	Grasping the Big Sociological Picture Shaping the Moral Lives of College Students Today
Quelle	In: Journal of College and Character, 13 (2012) 3, (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1940-1639
DOI	10.1515/jcc-2012-1907
Schlagwörter	College Students; Personality; Moral Values; Social Influences; Cultural Influences; Social Structure; College Role + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Personalität; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Sozialer Einfluss; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Sozialstruktur
Abstract	In order to understand the character and moral lives of college students today, it is necessary to set an examination within a larger framework of the macrosocial and cultural forces that have developed emerging adulthood as a relatively new and important phase of the American life course. Also helpful are identifying some of the key social-structural features of standard college life in the United States today, which exert significant influences on college students. In the midst of considering how to address issues of morality and character among college students, it is also necessary to explicitly name our assumptions and beliefs about what is good for human persons, what a good human life looks like, and then consider the role that college life may play in nurturing or hindering its achievement. Interrogating our own assumptions about what is normal and good for youth and college students is helpful. This essay concludes by commending an approach of "realistic care" as superior to the alternatives. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10