Moral Entrepreneur
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18927622 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary De Young (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosm122 |
| OpenAlex | W4246647360 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
A moral entrepreneur is an individual, group, or formal organization that takes on the responsibility of persuading society to develop or to enforce rules that are consistent with its own ardently held moral beliefs. Moral entrepreneurs may act as rule creators by crusading for the passage of rules, laws, and policies against behaviors they find abhorrent, or as rule enforcers by administering and implementing them. Although these are different and distinct roles, the effect of moral entrepreneurship, according to Howard Becker who coined the term, is the formation of a new class of outsiders whose behavior now violates these newly minted regulations and therefore is subject to the opprobrious label of “deviant.”
Entrepreneurship · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Moral responsibility · Political science · Sociology · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |