Ethics Anomie of University Faculty Engaged in Social Service in Current China: Status quo, Causes and Solutions

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10.2991/iceemr-18.2018.175How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Ethics anomie, University faculty, Social service

Abstract

This article takes a critical approach to explore the status quo, causes and solutions of university faculties’ ethics anomie when they engage in the public service in current China. The research methods used in this study are interview and literature analysis. The conclusions of this study are as follows: The main manifestations of this ethics anomie are that, faculties’ pursuit of independent character and academic freedom is faced with severe challenges, the recognition degree of social responsibility is declining, and their position is swinging between justice and benefit. There are many reasons for those problems, such as, the role of faculty is located incorrectly which causes identity crisis, the power distribution within the university system weakens the organizational supporting capacity to the ethics, and the imbalanced social control mechanisms aggravates possibilities of ethics anomie. There are some measures could be taken to solve those problems, such as, facing up to the limitation of universities’ social service ability which can eliminate the ethics deviation of role identity, coordinating the relationship between social and self-expectations which can increase the recognition degree of ethics, expanding universities’ autonomy space and enhancing the capacity towards it which can improve faculties’ moral consciousness and ability, reducing the external uneven regulatory mechanism which can set up a platform to enhance the ability of ethical practice. The main innovation of this study is as follows: The social services in Colleges and universities are analyzed from an ethical point of view.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Cunxu Bo
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BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 2nd International Conference on Education, Economics and Management Research (ICEEMR 2018)
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