What Morality Means [electronic resource] : An Interdisciplinary Synthesis for the Social Sciences /
McCaffree, Kevin.author.
What Morality Means examines the scientific theory of morality, drawing on zoological and physiological literatures in addition to contemporary sociological research on status and exchange. The theory roots morality in the capacity for perceptual overlap, and describes how perceptual overlap has been constrained and enabled in human history.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Toward an integrative theory of morality -- The origins of morality -- Perceptual partitioning in human history -- The cognitive and interactional structure of morality -- Subjective morality as an area of social scientific inquiry -- Reiterations.
What Morality Means examines the scientific theory of morality, drawing on zoological and physiological literatures in addition to contemporary sociological research on status and exchange. The theory roots morality in the capacity for perceptual overlap, and describes how perceptual overlap has been constrained and enabled in human history.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Social work.
Ethics.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Welfare state.
Religion and sociology.
Social Theory.
Social Work.
Ethics.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Politics of the Welfare State.
Social Aspects of Religion.