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We have defined internalized code orientations as an internalized codification of moral imperatives, in line with Weber’s ‘value postulates’ (Chap. 1), as they provide a unique standard against which reality’s flow of empirical events may be selected, measured, and judged. Code-orientations suggest that various social settings and circumstances are judged by, hypothetically speaking, one moral canon. Simply put, code-orientations function as an algorithm to provide an instant moral evaluation of a situation yet without determining the action of the social actor. The findings confirm the discursive-historical analysis of the prominent political code orientations identified in Part I of the book.
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Marangudakis, M. (2019). Internalized Code Orientations. In: The Greek Crisis and Its Cultural Origins. Cultural Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13589-8_10
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