Handbook of the sociology of morality / edited by Steven Hitlin, Stephen Vaisey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hitlin, Steven.

Vaisey, Stephen.

Series:

Handbooks of sociology and social research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences and ethics.

Ethics.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

xiii, 595 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer, [2010]

Contents:

Sociological perspectives on morality. Back to the future / Steven Hitlin and Stephen Vaisey ; The cognitive approach to morality / Raymond Boudon ; Four concepts of morality / Christopher Powell ; Adumbrations of a sociology of morality in the work of Parsons, Simmel, and Merton / Donald N. Levine ; The (Im)morality of war / Edward A. Tiryakian ; Social order as moral order / Anne Warfield Rawls

Sociological contexts. Natural selection and the evolution of morality in human societies / Jonathan H. Turner ; The sacred and the profane in the marketplace / Frederick F. Wherry ; Class and morality / Andrew Sayer ; The unstable alliance of law and morality / Carol A. Heimer ; Morality in organizations / Robert Jackall ; Explaining crime as moral actions / Per-Olof H. Wikström ; What does God require? : understanding religious context and morality / Christopher D. Bader and Roger Finke ; The duality of American moral culture / Wayne Baker ; Education and the culture wars / Jeffrey S. Dill and James Davison Hunter ; The creation and establishment of moral vocabularies / Brian M. Lowe

Morality in action. The trouble with invisible men / Robb Willer, Matthew Feinberg, Kyle Irwin, Michael Schultz, and Brent Simpson ; The justice/ morality link / Karen A. Hegtvedt and Heather L. Scheuerman ; Toward an integrated science morality / Rengin Firat and Chad Michael McPherson ; The social psychology of the moral identity / Jan E. Stets ; Morality and mind-body connections / Gabriel Ignatow ; Moral power / Jal Mehta and Christopher Winship ; Moral dimensions of the work-family nexus / Mary Blair-Loy ; Moral classification and social policy / Brian Steensland ; The moral construction of risk / Leslie T. Roth ; Moral discourse in economic contexts / Rebekah P. Massengill and Amy Reynolds ; Morality in the social interactional and discursive world of everyday life / Jason J. Turowetz and Douglas W. Maynard

Future directions for sociological science. Morality, modernity, and world society / Sabine Frerichs and Richard Münch ; The social construction of morality? / Steven Lukes ; What's new and what's old about the new sociology of morality / Gabriel Abend.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781441968944

1441968946

9781441968968

1441968962

9781441968951

1441968954

OCLC:

646114417

Publisher Number:

99954841362

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