Morality USA
By: Ellen G. Friedman, Corinne Squire.
Contributors: Squire, Corinne, 1958-
Publisher: Univeristy of Minnesota Press; University of Minnesota Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Social values -- United States.; United States -- Moral conditions.; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
Other titles: Morality U.S.A.; Morality United States of America
Description: Morality USA traces our ethical conundrum to rapid social change and events that have acted as moral breaks with the past. The Holocaust, the Kennedy and King assassinations, the civil rights and antiwar movements of the sixties, feminist and gay rights campaigns, Watergate, the Hill-Thomas hearings, and the Clinton sex scandals have progressively eroded confidence in moral universals.

Stripped of grand moral narratives, people are left with mere cost-benefit analyses of their ethical options or with only a personal sense of right and wrong, a privatized moral order.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-280) and index.