Moral Conflict

When Social Worlds Collide

AvW. (Walter) Barnett Pearce,Stephen W. Littlejohn

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

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Beskrivning

Moral Conflict, the subject of this book is passionate and difficult to resolve. Responses that are normally effective such as explaining, persuading, and compromising can make matters worse and drive people further apart in such conflicts. Moral conflicts occur when incommensurate social realities come to clash. Disputes about abortion, religion in politics and education, legal rights for homosexuals, and environmental politics are issues in which well-intentioned parties have created polarized and diverse patterns of communication. The most virtuous actions of each side not only fail, but widen the schism. Such conflicts require us to find forms of communication that go beyond our normal ways of dealing with disagreement. In an original synthesis of communication theory and their own research, W. Barnett Pearce and Stephen W. Littlejohn describe a dialectical tension between the expression and suppression of conflict that can be transcended in ways that lead to personal growth and productive patterns of social action. In Moral Conflict several projects are described as practical examples of these new ways of working through difficult struggles.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1997-04-25
Mått:152 x 228 x 15 mm
Vikt:420 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Upplaga:1
Förlag:SAGE Publications
ISBN:9780761900535

Utforska kategorier

Referensverk och tvärvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Stephen Littlejohn (Ph.D., University of Utah), is a conflict management consultant, mediator, facilitator, and trainer. He is consultant for the Public Dialogue Consortium and a partner in Domenici Littlejohn, Inc. Stephen is co-author of Moral Conflict: When Social Worlds Collide (Sage, 1997) and has written numerous other books and articles on communication and conflict. He was a professor of communication at Humboldt State University in California and is currently Adjunct Professor of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico. He has done research on mediation and conflict management for 19 years and has been an active mediator for eight. Stephen has been a consultant for such clients as the Waco Youth Summit, the Alliance for Constructive Communication, the City of Cupertino, Columbia Basin College, and Washington State University.

Innehållsförteckning

PART ONE: MORAL CONFLICTDiscovering Moral ConflictUnderstanding ConflictThe Problem of Moral ConflictPART TWO: COMMUNICATION AND THE EXPRESSION OF DIFFERENCEThe Quality of Public DiscoursePatterns of Expressing DifferenceFighting and Making PeacePART THREE: TOWARD A TRANSCENDENT DISCOURSENew Forms of EloquenceModel Projects in Transcendent DiscourseAchieving Transcendence