Handbook of the Sociology of Morality / edited by Steven Hitlin, Stephen Vaisey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hitlin, Steven, Editor.

Vaisey, Stephen, Editor.

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Handbooks of sociology and social research 2542-839X

Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research, 2542-839X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion.

Sociology.

Ethics.

Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.

Local Subjects:

Religion.

Sociology.

Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIII, 595 pages 17 illustrations)

Edition:

1st ed. 2010.

Contained In:

Springer Nature eBook

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2010.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

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 individuals form understandings of what behaviors are better than others, what goals are most laudable, and what "proper" people believe, feel, and do. Morality involves the explicit and implicit sets of rules and shared understandings that keep human social groups intact. Morality includes both the "shoulds" and "should nots" of human activity, its proactive and inhibitive elements. At one time, sociologists were centrally concerned with morality, issues like social cohesion, values, the goals and norms that structure society, and the ways individuals get socialized to reproduce those concerns. In the last half-century, however, explicit interest in these topics has waned, and modern sociology has become uninterested in these matters and morality has become marginalized within the discipline. But a resurgence in the topic is happening in related disciplines - psychology, neurology, philosophy, and anthropology - and in the wider national discourse. Sociology has much to offer, but is not fully engaged in this conversation. Many scholars work on areas that would fall under the umbrella of a sociology of morality but do not self-identify in such a manner, nor orient their efforts toward conceptualizing what we know, and should know, along these dimensions. The Handbook of the Sociology of Morality fills a niche within sociology making explicit the shared concerns of scholars across the disciplines as they relate to an often-overlooked dimension of human social life. It is unique in social science as it would be the first systematic compilation of the wider social structural, cultural, cross-national, organizational, and interactional dimension of human moral (understood broadly) thought, feeling, and behavior.

Contents:

Sociological Perspectives on Morality ("What Is It"?)

Back to the Future

The Cognitive Approach to Morality

Four Concepts of Morality

Adumbrations of a Sociology of Morality in the Work of Parsons, Simmel, and Merton

The (Im)morality of War

Social Order as Moral Order

Sociological Contexts ("Where Does It Come From?")

Natural Selection and the Evolution of Morality in Human Societies

The Sacred and the Profane in the Marketplace

Class and Morality

The Unstable Alliance of Law and Morality

Morality in Organizations

Explaining Crime as Moral Actions

What Does God Require? Understanding Religious Context and Morality

The Duality of American Moral Culture

Education and the Culture Wars

The Creation and Establishment of Moral Vocabularies

Morality in Action ("How Does It Work?")

The Trouble with Invisible Men

The Justice/Morality Link

Toward an Integrated Science of Morality

The Social Psychology of the Moral Identity

Morality and Mind-Body Connections

Moral Power

Moral Dimensions of the Work-Family Nexus

Moral Classification and Social Policy

The Moral Construction of Risk

Moral Discourse in Economic Contexts

Morality in the Social Interactional and Discursive World of Everyday Life

Future Directions for Sociological Science

Morality, Modernity, and World Society

The Social Construction of Morality?

What's New and What's Old about the New Sociology of Morality.

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ISBN:

9781441968968

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