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. Ed(S): Hitlin, Steven; Vaisey, Stephen - Handbook of the Sociology of Morality - 9781441968944 - V9781441968944
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Handbook of the Sociology of Morality

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Description for Handbook of the Sociology of Morality Hardback. The Handbook of the Sociology of Morality provides systematic compilation of the wider social structural, cultural, cross-national, organizational, and interactional dimension of human moral thought, feeling, and behavior. The text fills a niche within sociology, exploring an often-overlooked dimension of human social life. Editor(s): Hitlin, Steven; Vaisey, Stephen. Series: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Num Pages: 595 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, 20 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HR; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 185 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1236.

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.

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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.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
595
Condition
New
Series
Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
Number of Pages
595
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781441968944
SKU
V9781441968944
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About . Ed(S): Hitlin, Steven; Vaisey, Stephen
Steve Hitlin received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is now Assistant Professor of sociology at the University of Iowa. His research interests include social psychology, self and identity, values, morality, social theory, life course studies and gender. His primary focus is on contributing to the sociology of morality, including building bridges between scholars and disciplines around this ... Read more

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