Book chapter
Back to the Future: Reviving the Sociology of Morality
Handbook of the Sociology of Morality, pp.3-14
Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research, Springer New York
08/27/2010
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6896-8_1
Abstract
If we could travel back in time and speak with Emile Durkheim or Max Weber, they might be puzzled by this handbook, with its goal to renew “the sociology of morality.” “Can there be,” we imagine them asking, “a sociology that is not a sociology of morality?” Durkheim, after all, once claimed that [i]f there is one fact that history has irrefutably demonstrated, it is that the morality of each people is directly related to the social structure of the people practicing it…The connection is so intimate that, given the general character of the morality observed in a given society … one can infer the nature of that society, the elements of its structure and the way it is organized (1961 [1925]:87)
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Back to the Future: Reviving the Sociology of Morality
- Creators
- Steven Hitlin - University of IowaStephen Vaisey - Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Handbook of the Sociology of Morality, pp.3-14
- Publisher
- Springer New York; New York, NY
- Series
- Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4419-6896-8_1
- eISSN
- 2542-839X
- ISSN
- 1389-6903
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/27/2010
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology
- Record Identifier
- 9984306240602771
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