Contributor
Jeffries, Vincent.
Imprint:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Descriptionxv, 434 pages ; 24 cm
Note: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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
