Take Home Exam OneReview biological/explanations for the development of morality. What are their limits? Explanations from natural sciences and social sciences indeed have their limits. Historically, the two disciplines have proceeded in separate directions, but in today's scientific communities, the natural sciences are increasingly involved in research on morality (Frerichs & Münich, 2010, p. 529-530). The reintroduction of the study of morality into the sciences has stimulated new thinking across disciplines, particularly those of the natural sciences. Frerichs and Monaco (2010) argue that “individuals are nothing without their bodies” (p. 531). These kinds of perspectives are what I believe can spark interdisciplinary studies in morality, neuroscience, and philosophy, for example. Hitlin and Vaisey (2010) state that “brains hardwired to draw moral distinctions” and such distinctions “did not develop in a vacuum” (p. 9). Such recognitions impose limitations on the objectivity of research conducted in this new interdisciplinary space because researchers have an unlimited opportunity to assert their values. Such values are natural, as Frerichs and Münich (2010) explain. There is a “natural predisposition of the human brain” (p. 534). The only way to overcome these limitations is to move away from “value relationships” and move closer to a vision of “common points in the worldview”. Thus , we broaden the scope of our research and encourage our research to draw conclusions about humanity with respect to population to transcend current limitations… half of paper… of the Sociology of Morality (pp. 15-33: Springer. Definition of Morality, The from http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/morality-defintion/Frerichs, S., Münich, R. (2010). Morality, modernity and world society. , Handbook of the sociology of morality (pp. 15-33). New York, NY: Springer.Hitlin, S., Vaisey, S. (2010). Back to the Future: Reviving the Sociology of Morality. In S. Hitlin, S. Vaisey (eds.), Handbook of the sociology of morality (pp. 3-13). New York, NY: Springer. Lukes, S. (2010). The social construction of morality. In S. Hitlin, S. Vaisey (eds.), Handbook of the sociology of morality (pp. 549-560). New York, NY: Springer. Mehta, J., Winship, C. (2010). Moral power. In S. Hitlin, S. Vaisey (eds.), Handbook of the sociology of morality (pp. 15-33). New York, New York: Springer.
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