The Effects of Social Solidarity on Moral Emotions and Morality
The Effects of Social Solidarity on Moral Emotions and Morality

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses the impact of social solidarity on moralemotions such as embarrassment, shame and guilt at a social level. The effectof moral emotions on individual morality is presented. The paper emphasizesthe fact that solidarity, which is generally perceived as having positiveeffects, may also produce social anomie. This situation is reached by a silentagreement concerning intellectual fraud which goes unpunished at a sociallevel and can, thus, lead to deviant behaviour being considered tolerable as aresult of rational reasoning which could shake social structure.

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