Anger and Organization Studies: From Social Disorder to Moral Order
反对将愤怒视为个体心理障碍或社会失序的观点，提出愤怒是一种旨在维护和恢复道德秩序的深刻道德情感，并通过分析电影《十二怒汉》展示了道德愤怒的信息维度和能量维度。
In this essay, we oppose current conceptualizations of anger as, at least, a temporary individual psychological disorder and as the cause of a social disorder. We develop the view that anger can be a profoundly moral emotion aimed at maintaining moral order and restoring social order when this has been ruptured. Moral anger is distinguished from other types of anger, like the ones arising from routine frustration, break-downs of communication and ego violations. Through a close reading of the jury drama Twelve Angry Men, we demonstrate that moral anger has an information dimension, signaling a rupture of a moral code, as well as an energic dimension, as a source of energy aimed at putting right a wrong. We conclude that a world without anger would be, possibly, a compliant and quiescent world but not a just world.