The document explores the societal implications of ethics in relation to contemporary struggles, defining ethics as a guide for acceptable conduct grounded in principles such as truth, fairness, and equity. It discusses various ethical views, including utilitarianism, individualism, moral rights, and justice, highlighting their impacts on community decision-making and the necessity of considering differing perspectives on ethical matters. Additionally, the text emphasizes the importance of engaging with social and ethical issues in research and the benefits of applying moral ethics to address societal challenges.

1. Societal Implications of
Ethics with Regards to
Contemporary Struggles

3. Welcome to class!
Topics
• Community views and Ethical Standards
• Definition of terms
• Types of Contemporary Issues, Examples,
and Solutions
• Relation and Effects of Ethics in Modern
Societal Issues
• Benefits of Moral Ethics in Dealing with
Societal Issues/Struggles

4. WHAT IS ETHICS?
Ethics refers to a set of rules that describes
acceptable conduct in society. Ethics serve as a
guide to daily moral living and helps us judge
whether our behavior can be justified.

5. WHAT IS ETHICS?
It also refers to society's sense of the right way
of living our daily lives. It does this by
establishing ules, principles, and values on
which we can base our conduct. The concepts
most directly associated with ethics are truth,
honesty, fairness, and equity.

6. Sometimes, doing no harm can mean not starting a
community intervention at all. As John McKnight points
out in The Careless Society: Community and Its
Counterfeits, community interventions may in fact
sometimes harm participants by substituting for what
they really need to be part of a real community, to be
regarded in terms of their capacities rather than their
deficiencies, to have access to a steady source of income.

7. Community Views about Ethics
1. Utilitarian View
The Utilitarian View consider ethical behavior to be that which
delivers the greatest good to the greatest number of people. Based
on the work of 19th-century philosopher John Stuart Mill, this results-
oriented point of view assesses the moral implications of actions in
terms of their consequences.

8. Community Views about Ethics
2. Individualism View
The Individualism View of ethical behavior is based on the belief that one’s
primary commitment is to long-term advancement of self-interests. The
basic idea of this approach is that society will be the best off if everyone
acts in a way that maximizes his or her own utility or happiness. According
to this viewpoint, people supposedly become self-regulating as they pursue
long-term individual advantage.

9. Community Views about Ethics
3.Moral Rights View
Ethical behavior under a moral rights view is that which respects and
protects the fundamental rights of people. Form the teachings of John
Locke and Thomas Jefferson, for example, the right of all people to life,
liberty, and fair treatment under the law are considered inviolate.

10. Community Views about Ethics
4. Justice View
The Justice View of moral behavior is based on the belief that ethical
decisions treat people impartially and fairly, according to legal rules and
standards. This approach evaluates the ethical aspects of any decision
on the basis of whether it is “equitable” for everyone affected. Justice
issue in organizations are often addressed on four dimensions-
procedural, distributive, interactional, and commutative.

11. Community Views about Ethics
5. Procedural justice
Involves the degree to which policies and rules are fairly applied to all
individuals.
6. Distributive justice
Involves the degree to which outcomes are allocated fairly among people and
without respect to individual characteristics based on ethnicity, race, gender, age,
or other particularistic criteria.

12. Community Views about Ethics
7.Interactional justice
Involves the degree to which people treat one another with dignity and
respect.
Commutative justice

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Examples of the types of
Standards found in
Professional codes of
Ethics includes:

14. Government Corruption

15. Domestic Violence

16. Abortion

17. Relation and Effects of Ethics in Modern
Societal Issues
• People with strong views on diet and nutrition (including vegetarians
and vegans)
• People with a family history of cardiovascular disease
• People with obesity issues (including those who have medical
conditions which contribute to their problems)
• Those responsible for budgeting for physical activity provision in
schools and communities
• Parents – ranging from parents who encourage active participation in
sport, to parents of teenagers and parents of obese children
• People with mobility issues may also be sensitive to this subject

18. Relation and Effects of Ethics in Modern
Societal Issues
Social and ethical issues are present in everything we do. No matter
how large or small the scale of your work, or how major or minor the
impact, the people you engage with will have views about the social
and ethical issues raised by your research. The chances are that many
of those views will differ significantly from your own.
In some cases, the process of engaging with the public, as well as the
content of your research may raise social or ethical issues. For
example, if you choose to hold an engagement activity in the evening
you may unintentionally exclude those who care for children or elderly
relatives - primarily women.

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Benefits of Moral Ethics in Dealing with
Societal Issues/Struggles

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Benefits of Moral Ethics in Dealing with
Societal Issues/Struggles
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