The Palgrave Handbook of Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity [electronic resource] : Formulating a Field of Study /
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Jeffries, V.editor.
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.
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List of figures and tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1. 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 2. 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 3. Core ideas: elaborations and implications: 8. Six sources of altruism: springs of morality and solidarity / Stephen G. Post; 9. Social psychological ingredients for a sociology of morality / Steven Hitlin; 10. On social solidarity / Christian Smith and Katherine Sorrell; 11. Solidarity, yesterday and today / Edward A. Tiryakian and Jonathan H. Morgan -- 
Part 4. 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 altruism / 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: the promise of deliberative democracy / Peter L. Callero; 18. Beyond altruism: philanthropy as moral biography and moral citizenship of care / Paul G. Schervish -- Notes on contributors -- Name index -- Subject index.
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.
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