Abstract
You can glean almost as many social psychological insights from reading Bill Waterson’s comic strip Calvin and Hobbes as you can from reading the research journals. After Calvin breaks a plate, his mother suggests that he lacks common sense. Calvin replies, capturing the essence of this dual-process model of conscience, “I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.”
Questions about morality are, or rather should be, at the heart of sociological inquiry.
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© 2008 Steven Hitlin
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Hitlin, S. (2008). The Possibility Of Morality. In: Moral Selves, Evil Selves. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230614949_11
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