MORAL UPBRINGING AS A SOURCE OF SOCIAL SOLIDARITY
E. A. Stepanova
Ekaterinburg
Keywords: modernity, moral education, spirit of discipline, belonging to social groups, autonomy, organic solidarity
Abstract
The author analyzes Emile Durkheim’s concept of moral upbringing and its role in the contemporary school education. It is shown that, according to this concept, three interdependent qualities lie in the foundation of moral life in the modern society: the spirit of discipline, belonging to social groups and the personal autonomy; thus, the morals in the society of modernism becomes secular and ceases to be a code of eternal norms, having a sacred nature. Durkheim believed that the essence of the individual moral is determined by the duties toward society. Accordingly, social solidarity is a condition of moral upbringing, as well as its goal; and, the purpose of moral upbringing can be adequately defined only in a particular social-cultural context.
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