"Man gör bara inte så!" : En etnologisk studie av moraliskt tänkande

Sammanfattning: Cultural anthropologists have noted that humanity’s moral thinking seem to follow certain patterns, irregardless of society. Norms and ethical themes appear to cluster in three distinctive groups of moral rules and concepts. These clusters, or ethics, have been called the ethics of autonomy, the ethics of community and the ethics of divinity. All three are moral discourses, or symbolic systems related to ethics, with the help of which we understand our ongoing experience. Together they form the base in a distinctive cultural morals. The moral systems specific cultures produce will differ, depending on what or which of the ethics one chooses to emphasize. There can be a great discrepancy between an institutionalized moral discourse and a latent counter-discourse. With the help of interviews and theoretical analysis, this paper will show different ways to conceptualize differences between an official, canonized moral discourse and parallel but underground forms of morals in society. This paper, also, wants to show a different way of thinking about ethical questions and contrasting moral cultures.