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Nov 2, 2021 · Broadly speaking, sociological approaches to morality try to focus on the influence that social factors may have on both the societal (or multifaceted) development of moral schemes and the ways that people in differing social positions may think, feel, and behave within socially circumscribed interactions.
- New Directions in the Sociology of Morality | SpringerLink
Morality has proved a difficult concept for sociologists to...
- Sociology as the Study of Morality - SpringerLink
Several theorists of morality within sociology have recently...
- New Directions in the Sociology of Morality | SpringerLink
Feb 26, 2013 · Edited by Steven Hitlin and Stephen Vaisey, 561–584. New York: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6896-8. An excellent summary of where the field of morality studies stands within sociology, helpfully outlining where sociologists have new insights into the nature of morality, and how this newer work relates to classical theories.
Jul 23, 2018 · Andrey Bykov is a senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology, National Research University Higher School of Economics and a research fellow at the Institute of Sociology of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His research interests include the sociology of morality, sociological theory and experimental cognitive sociology.
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May 7, 2020 · In sociology’s early days, morality or ethics—la morale in France, Ethik in Germany—was the center of attention. The concern with this topic, or rather range of topics, was general and can be seen in the writings of Herbert Spencer, Edward Westermarck, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, and Émile Durkheim.
Oct 26, 2023 · Morality has proved a difficult concept for sociologists to define. We begin by reviewing two great families of approaches to the problem: one based on the content of morality and the other on its form. We then consider Durkheim’s and Parson’s respective synthesis of the two approaches. While the Parsonian formulation of morality as values ...
Jan 18, 2021 · Walker examines how a sociological approach to understanding morality can inform research on morality and how it can guide educational practice through the concepts of sociological habitus and philosophical hexeis (Ignatow, Citation 2009; Kristjánsson, Citation 2015). These concepts refer, respectively, to the shaping of dispositions through social positioning and the shape of moral character.
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Several theorists of morality within sociology have recently attempted to provide substantive definitions of morality. Stephen Vaisey and Andrew Miles, for example, suggest that morality has two meanings, and that one meaning addresses “a priori, universal standards of harm, rights, and justice,” while the other meaning addresses “questions of good and bad or right and wrong that might ...
