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Poor Richard's Principle: Recovering the American Dream through the Moral Dimension of Work, Business, and Money

Princeton University Press (1998)

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Religion and Attitudes to Corporate Social Responsibility in a Large Cross-Country Sample.S. Brammer, Geoffrey Williams & John Zinkin - 2007 - Journal of Business Ethics 71 (3):229-243.details This paper explores the relationship between religious denomination and individual attitudes to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) within the context of a large sample of over 17,000 individuals drawn from 20 countries. We address two general questions: do members of religious denominations have different attitudes concerning CSR than people of no denomination? And: do members of different religions have different attitudes to CSR that conform to general priors about the teachings of different religions? Our evidence suggests that, broadly, religious individuals do (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 50 citations
Talk of work: transatlantic divergences in justifications for hard work among French, Norwegian, and American professionals.Jeremy Schulz - 2012 - Theory and Society 41 (6):603-634.details This article approaches work talk, a neglected but vital object of sociological inquiry, as a possible key to unlocking the mystery of the contemporary work ethic as it appears among male professionals living and working in the United States and Western Europe. This analytical task is carried out through a close examination of the contrasting rhetorics, scripts, and vocabularies anchoring French, Norwegian, and American forms of hard work talk. This comparative exercise capitalizes on material from over one hundred in-depth interviews (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
The Social Characterizations of Price: The Fool, the Faithful, the Frivolous, and the Frugal.Frederick F. Wherry - 2008 - Sociological Theory 26 (4):363-379.details This article extends both Viviana Zelizer's discussion of the social meaning of money and Charles Smith's proposal that pricing is a definitional practice to the under-theorized realm of the social meanings generated in the pricing system. Individuals are attributed with calculating or not calculating whether an object or service is "worth" its price, but these attributions differ according to the individual's social location as being near to or far from a societal reference point rather than by the inherent qualities of (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations
Advertising morality: maintaining moral worth in a stigmatized profession.Andrew C. Cohen & Shai M. Dromi - 2018 - Theory and Society 47 (2):175-206.details Although a great deal of literature has looked at how individuals respond to stigma, far less has been written about how professional groups address challenges to their self-perception as abiding by clear moral standards. In this paper, we ask how professional group members maintain a positive self-perception in the face of moral stigma. Drawing on pragmatic and cultural sociology, we claim that professional communities hold narratives that link various aspects of the work their members perform with specific understanding of the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 6 citations
The lived analytic: layers of meaning(fullness) in the context of the Holocaust.John Bendix - 2004 - History of the Human Sciences 17 (2-3):125-145.details ‘Holocaust consciousness’ has become a confused, monolithic, hortatory mix that can be better disaggregated, this essay suggests, by engaging in a series of moves: first by recasting what we mean by theory; second by drawing on both Tönnies and on family history to meld the analytic and personal perspectives more seamlessly together; and third by successively peeling away historical layers with a series of questions about how German and American society have recently coped with the legacy of the Holocaust, and (...) Download Export citation Bookmark

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