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A review by bootman
Is Shame Necessary?: New Uses for an Old Tool by Jennifer Jacquet
5.0
Great book, but I'm torn on her argument.
As someone who was unfairly publicly shamed in 2019, I'm always trying to learn more about the subject. The author does a great job discussing effective shaming, and the core of the book is about getting big corporations to do the right thing, but when it comes to a more personal level is when the water gets mucked up.
Aside from learning more about shaming, I read a lot on moral philosophy and psychology. The authors argument is that shaming helps divert people from moral transgressions by making examples of others. The issue is that many people don't understand the spectrum of morality. What's a moral transgression to one group is completely fine and justified to another, and that's the issue we need to address.
If this is a topic you're interested in, I highly recommend the books The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt and Moral Tribes by Joshua Greene
As someone who was unfairly publicly shamed in 2019, I'm always trying to learn more about the subject. The author does a great job discussing effective shaming, and the core of the book is about getting big corporations to do the right thing, but when it comes to a more personal level is when the water gets mucked up.
Aside from learning more about shaming, I read a lot on moral philosophy and psychology. The authors argument is that shaming helps divert people from moral transgressions by making examples of others. The issue is that many people don't understand the spectrum of morality. What's a moral transgression to one group is completely fine and justified to another, and that's the issue we need to address.
If this is a topic you're interested in, I highly recommend the books The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt and Moral Tribes by Joshua Greene