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Handbook of the Sociology of Morality

Human beings necessarily understand their social worlds in moral terms, orienting their lives, relationships, and activities around socially-produced notions of right and wrong. Morality is sociologically understood as more than simply helping or harming others; it encompasses any way that individua...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Hitlin, Steven. (Editor), Vaisey, Stephen. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Edition:1.
Series:Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research,
Subjects:
Social sciences.
Ethics.
Religion (General).
Social Sciences.
Sociology, general.
Religious Studies.
Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6896-8
Table of Contents:
  • <p>Foreword. The Return of the Moral (Michele Lamont)
  • Part 1: Sociological Perspectives On Morality (<U+001c>What is it ?)
  • Chapter 1. Back to the Future: Reviving the Sociology of the Future; Steven Hitlin and Stephen Vaisey
  • Chapter 2. The Cognitive Approach to Morality; Raymond Boudon
  • Chapter 3. Four Concepts of Morality; Christopher Powell
  • Chapter 4. Adumbrations of a Sociology of Morality in the work of Parsons, Simmel, and Merton; Donald Levine
  • Chapter 5. Classical Approaches to Morality: War and Modernity; Edward Tiryakian
  • Chapter 6. Social Order as Moral Order; Ann Rawls
  • Part 2: Sociological Contexts (<U+001c>Where does it come from? )
  • Chapter 7. Social Selection, Evolution, and Human Morality; Jonathan H. Turner
  • Chapter 8. Cross-Cultural Understandings of Embodied Moral Codes; Frederick Wherry
  • Chapter 9. Social Class and the Development of Morality; Andrew Sayer
  • Chapter 10. Legal Systems and Moral Codes; Carol Heimer
  • Chapter 11. Morality in Organizations; Robert Jackall
  • Chapter 12. Explaining Crime as Moral Actions; Per-Olof Wikstrom
  • Chapter 13. Religious Contexts and Moral Development; Chris Bader and Roger Finke.-Chapter 14. American Moral Culture and Values; Wayne Baker.- Chapter 15. Education and the <U+001c>Culture Wars ; James Davidson Hunter and Jeffrey Dill
  • Chapter 16. The Creation of Moral Vocabularies; Brian Lowe
  • Part 3: Morality In Action (<U+001c>How does it work? )
  • Chapter 17. Altruism and Cooperation; Robb Willer, Matthew Feinberg, Kyle Irwin, Michael Shultz and Brent Simpson
  • Chapter18. Justice and Exchange as Core Moral Processes; Karen Hegtvedt and Heather Scheuerman
  • Chapter 19. Towards an Integrated Science of Morality: Linking Mind, Society and Culture; Rengin Firat and Chad Michael McPherson
  • Chapter 20. Moral Identity; Jan E. Stets
  • Chapter 21. Morality and the Mind-Body Connection; Gabriel Ignatow
  • Chapter 22. Moral Power in Social Movements; Christopher Winship and Jal Mehta
  • Chapter 23. Moral Dimensions of the Work/Family Nexus; Mary Blair-Loy
  • Chapter 24. Moral Categories and Public Policy; Brian Steensland
  • Chapter 25. The Moral Construction of Risk; Leslie Roth
  • Chapter 26. Moral Discourse in Economic Contexts; Rebekah P. Massengill and Amy Reynolds
  • Chapter 27. Morality and Discourse; Jason Turowetz and Doug Maynard
  • Part 4: Future Directions For Sociological Science
  • Chapter 28. Morality, Modernity, and World Society; Sabine Frerichs and Richard M<U+00fc>nch
  • Chapter 29. Moral Relativism and the Shaping of a Field of Inquiry; Steven Lukes
  • Chapter 30. Classical Approaches and Contemporary Questions: What Next?; Gabriel Abend.</p>.

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