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Problem
Moral pretension
Other Names:
Overcompensation for socio-cultural deficiencies
Broader Problems:
Distortion
Affectation
Vacuous public values
Narrower Problems:
Ignorant pretension
Aggravates:
Moral uneasiness
Sense of impermanence
Minimization of problems
Restrictive social policies
Historical misrepresentation
Conceptual repression of problems
Unrealistically positive self-assessment
Strategies:
Exhausting moral resources
Recreating value systems
Compensating for socio-cultural deficiencies
References:
Fussell, Paul: The Dumbing of America
Bourdieu, Pierre: Distinction
Subject(s):
Society
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Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems
Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST