Ethics and College Student Life A Case Study Approach

by Strike, Kenneth; Moss, Pamela

• ISBN13: 9780132343312
• ISBN10: 0132343312
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-01
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This uniquehands-onguide uses a highly effective case approach to explore specific, reality-based examples of the complex, controversial, and difficult ethical issues that students face on college campuses todaye.g., plagiarism, racism and hate speech, date rape, alcohol abuse. Then, through thought-provoking questions and critical discussions, prods readers to explore their own positions, notions, and opinions, and to justify their stances. It shows them how five important ethical principles can be used to think through these problems and to solve them in ethical dialogues.Academic Integrity, Grading, and Cheating. Tolerance, Diversity, and Hate Speech. Privacy and Dialogue. Loyalty, Friendship, and Community. Sex, Relationships, and Power. Drinking and Living the Good Life. On Getting a Life. Religion, Relativism, and Dialogue.For college students and anyone interested in ethics.

Table of Contents

To the Instructor	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Can We Think About Ethics?	p. 1
Using Case Studies to Think About Ethics	p. 1
Some Ethical Principles	p. 3
A Sample Case Study Analysis	p. 5
The File	p. 5
Issues	p. 6
Applying Ethical Principles to the Case	p. 6
For Further Inquiry	p. 9
References	p. 11
Academic Integrity, Grading, and Cheating	p. 12
Cheating	p. 12
Issues	p. 14
Applying Ethical Principles to the Case	p. 15
Examples of College and University Codes on Academic Dishonesty	p. 19
Additional Cases	p. 22
The Tutor	p. 22
Time Crunch	p. 23
TakeNote: Help or Hindrance?	p. 23
A Question of Plagiarism	p. 24
There Isn't Enough to Go Around	p. 25
Background Reading	p. 27
Additional Materials	p. 28
Tolerance, Diversity, and Hate Speech	p. 32
Hate Speech	p. 32
Issues	p. 35
Applying Ethical Principles to the Case	p. 38
Working Out Solutions	p. 40
Examples of College and University Codes Regarding Hate Speech	p. 41
Additional Cases	p. 44
The Canon	p. 44
Self-Segregation	p. 45
Cafeteria Friendships	p. 47
Long-Lost Friend	p. 48
Consciousness-Raising	p. 49
The Christmas Party	p. 51
Racism or Self-Sabotage?	p. 52
One of "Us," or One of Them"?	p. 54
Oreo Intellectual	p. 55
Erase the Hate	p. 57
The Locker Room Closet	p. 58
Watch Your (Body) Language	p. 60
Background Reading	p. 61
Additional Materials	p. 66
Privacy and Dialogue	p. 75
Two Cases: Invading Personal Space	p. 75
Incompatibility	p. 75
Different strokes	p. 76
Issues	p. 78
Applying Ethical Principles to the Cases	p. 79
A Theory of Privacy	p. 81
Working Out Solutions	p. 83
Examples of College and University Codes on Privacy	p. 85
Additional Cases	p. 87
The Assignment	p. 87
Raided!	p. 89
Searching	p. 90
Smooching in the Lounge	p. 91
Telephone Harassment	p. 93
Apartment 3-G	p. 94
Noise Pollution	p. 95
Smokers' Rights?	p. 96
Porn Assignment?	p. 97
Cutting	p. 98
Now Entering the Blogosphere	p. 100
Public or Private Space?	p. 101
Background Reading	p. 102
Additional Materials	p. 103
Loyalty, Friendship, and Community	p. 106
Two Cases: United We Stand?	p. 106
Loyalty Test	p. 106
Group Guilt	p. 108
Issues	p. 110
Applying Ethical Principles to the Cases	p. 112
Working Out Solutions	p. 115
Additional Cases	p. 116
Hazing	p. 116
Sharing Secrets	p. 117
Ratting: A Roommate's Dilemma	p. 118
Secret Abuse	p. 119
School Spirit	p. 120
Stand By Your Man?	p. 121
Flamed?	p. 123
Background Reading	p. 124
Additional Materials	p. 127
Sex, Relationships, and Power	p. 131
Seduction or Rape?	p. 131
Issues	p. 134
Different Perspectives on Sexual Ethics	p. 135
The Bonder	p. 138
The Aesthete	p. 139
The Bonder and the Aesthete in the Media	p. 141
Applying Ethical Principles to the Case	p. 143
Examples of College and University Codes Governing Sexual Behavior	p. 143
Additional Cases	p. 147
Pregnant!	p. 147
Best Buddies	p. 148
Cheating	p. 149
Dating in the Age of AIDS	p. 150
Sexual Harassment I	p. 151
Sexual Harassment II	p. 152
The Affair	p. 153
First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage...	p. 155
You've Got (Hate) Mail	p. 156
Athletes, Rape, and Spin	p. 157
Background Reading	p. 159
Additional Materials	p. 161
Drinking and Living the Good Life	p. 166
The Drinking Survey	p. 166
Issues	p. 170
Autonomy and Self-Control	p. 171
Moderation	p. 178
Examples of College and University Codes on Drinking and Drug Use	p. 181
Additional Cases	p. 182
Alcohol and the Real Me	p. 182
Sorry, I Was Drunk	p. 183
A Friend in Need	p. 184
Stoned Sex	p. 185
High Performance	p. 187
Alcohol: A Fatal Attraction	p. 188
Background Reading	p. 189
Additional Materials	p. 190
On Getting a Life	p. 194
Two Cases: What Is College For?	p. 194
Finding Herself	p. 194
Choosing a Career	p. 195
Issues	p. 197
Applying Ethical Principles to the Cases	p. 199
Working Toward Solutions	p. 200
Additional Cases	p. 211
Who Do You Think I Am?	p. 211
Divorce Aftermath	p. 212
Whose Life Is It, Anyway?	p. 213
Where Do I Belong?	p. 214
A Good Job	p. 216
Working Woman	p. 217
Who's Supposed to Take Care of Me?	p. 219
Background Reading	p. 220
Additional Materials	p. 222
Religion, Relativism, and Dialogue	p. 227
Three Cases: "I Believe..."	p. 227
Thus Saith the Lord	p. 227
After Me, Please	p. 228
Let's Talk	p. 228
Questions in Moral Epistemology	p. 230
Plato's Progress	p. 231
Absolutism and Relativism	p. 234
Tolerance and Dialogue	p. 239
The Importance of Moral Dialogue	p. 241
Problem: Unified Housing at Brighton College	p. 245
Bibliography	p. 248
For Further Reflection: Additional Cases	p. 249
Out with the Old	p. 249
Overloaded	p. 250
Performance Anxiety	p. 251
What Was That Again?	p. 252
Special Treatment	p. 254
It Isn't Really Stealing	p. 255
Fender Bender	p. 256
The Hacker	p. 257
Rent Battle	p. 258
Suicidal?	p. 259
With Charity Toward All	p. 260
Contemporary Social Problems: Who Cares?	p. 261
Freedom of Religion?	p. 263
Yes, Master	p. 264
What's Wrong with That Girl?	p. 265
A Second Chance?	p. 266
The Ethics Textbook That Wasn't PC Enough (Or Was It?)	p. 267
Index	p. 271
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