LEADER 04146nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910822480503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-98250-8 010 $a9786612982507 010 $a1-4419-6896-2 024 7 $a10.1007/978-1-4419-6896-8 035 $a(CKB)2550000000020321 035 $a(EBL)645984 035 $a(OCoLC)681900551 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000449588 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11326164 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000449588 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10429537 035 $a(PQKB)11119962 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-4419-6896-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC645984 035 $a(PPN)149030274 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000020321 100 $a20100810d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aHandbook of the sociology of morality /$fedited by Steven Hitlin, Stephen Vaisey 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cSpringer$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (591 p.) 225 1 $aHandbooks of sociology and social research,$x1389-6903 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4419-6894-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. Sociological perspectives on morality ("What is it"?) -- pt. 2. Sociological contexts ("Where does it come from?") -- pt. 3. Morality in action ("How does it work?") -- pt. 4. Future directions for sociological science. 330 $aHuman 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. 410 0$aHandbooks of sociology and social research. 606 $aEthics 606 $aSociology$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aSociology$xPhilosophy 615 0$aEthics. 615 0$aSociology$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aSociology$xPhilosophy. 676 $a301.01 701 $aHitlin$b Steven$01751440 701 $aVaisey$b Stephen$01751441 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822480503321 996 $aHandbook of the sociology of morality$94186408 997 $aUNINA