The Palgrave handbook of altruism, morality, and social solidarity : formulating a field of study
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The Palgrave handbook of altruism, morality, and social solidarity : formulating a field of study
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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The study of altruism, morality, and social solidarity is an emerging field of scholarship and research in sociology. This handbook will function as a foundational source for this subject matter and field, and as an impetus to its further development.
Table of Contents
- PART I: GENERAL PERSPECTIVES AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS 1. Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity as a Field of Study
- Vincent Jeffries 2. Virtues and Human Personhood in the Social Sciences
- Margarita A. Mooney PART II: THE FOUNDERS AND INTELLECTUAL HERITAGE 3. Durkheim's Theory of Social Solidarity and Social Rules
- Alexander Gofman 4. Beyond the Altruism-Egoism Dichotomy: A New Typology to Capture Morality as a Complex Phenomenon
- Raquel Weiss and Paulo Peres 5. The Explanatory Power of Ethics - The Sociology of Jane Addams
- Patricia Lengermann and Gillian Niebrugge 6. Pitirim Sorokin's Heritage: From Core Ideas to Syntheses of Theory and of Practice
- Pavel Krotov 7. Modern Roots of the Sociology of Love: Tolstoy, Addams, Gandhi and Sorokin
- Lawrence T. Nichols PART III: CORE IDEAS: ELABORATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS 8. Five Sources of Altruism and Case Studies: Springs of Morality and Solidarity
- Stephen Post 9. The Social Psychology of Morality: An Overview of Important Moving Parts
- Steven Hitlin 10. On Social Solidarity
- Christian Smith and Katherine Sorrell 11. Solidarity, Yesterday and Today
- Edward A. Tiryakian and Jonathan H. Morgan PART IV: ALTRUISM, MORALITY, AND SOCIAL SOLIDARITY: INTERRELATIONSHIPS AND APPLICATIONS 12. The Evolution of Affect, Sociality, Altruism, and Conscience in Humans
- Jonathan H. Turner 13. Morality as a Cultural System: On Solidarity Civil and Uncivil
- Jeffrey C. Alexander 14. The Essential Interconnections Among Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity: The Case of Religious Benevolence
- Matthew T. Lee 15. Linking Morality, Altruism, and Social Solidarity Using Identity Theory
- Jan E. Stets and Kevin McCaffree 16. Making Morals: Standard Setting in Organizations
- Sorcha A. Brophy 17. Self, Identity, and Politics in the Study of Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity
- Peter Callero 18. Beyond Altruism: Philanthropy as Moral Biography and Citizenship of Care
- Paul G. Schervish
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