Socialization Moral Judgment and Action

How does culture affect action? This question has long been framed in terms of a means vs ends debate—in other words do cultural ends or cultural means play a primary causal role in human behavior? However the role of socialization has been largely overlooked in this debate. In this book Vila-Henninger develops a model of how culture affects action called “The Sociological Dual-Process Model of Outcomes” that incorporates socialization.. This book contributes to the debate by first providing a critical overview of the literature that explains the limitations of the sociological dual-process model and subsequent scholarship—and especially work in sociology on “schemas”. It then develops a sociological dual-process model of moral judgment that formally explains Type I processes Type II processes and the interaction between Type I and Type II processes. The book also expands sociological dual-process models to include a temporal dimension—the Sociological Dual-Process Model of Outcomes. Finally the book integrates a theory of socialization into the sociological dual-process model and creates empirical indicators that confirm Vila-Henninger’s theorization and contribute to the literature on measures of dual-process models.