Moral Issues and Virtues

Moral Issues and Virtues

In the selected case (Thinking Critically About Ethical Issues, Case 11 pp. 119-120), the sociologist and the people living in the urban slum are involved. The moral issue is the lack of disclosure of the identities of car theft syndicates by the researcher who discovered them. The relationship at stake is between the people living in the urban slum and the researcher. The sociologist displays her ethics of care by not sharing information on car theft rings. In the urban slums, syndicates run very deep; disclosing information about the syndicate members will cause havoc. The members of the car theft circle will hunt the people who gave the information to the researcher for revenge. Therefore, the researcher cared for the people living in the urban slum and the relationship she had built with them. The ethics of care supported her moral decision. According to Gilligan 1977, an ethical decision involves exercising a choice and taking responsibility for the selection. Accordingly, the researcher chose to overlook the information shared with her due to the ethics of care, and she willingly accepts responsibility for her choice, knowing the implications of the same choice.

References

Gilligan, C. (1977). In a Different Voice: Women’s Conceptions of Self and Morality. Harvard Educational Review, 47(4), 481-517. https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.47.4.g6167429416hg5l0

Ruggiero, V. (2014). Thinking critically about ethical issues (9th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education.

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