Book chapter
Social psychology and morality
Handbook of Social Psychology, pp.349-360
Research Handbooks on Social Psychology series, Edward Elgar Publishing
2025
DOI: 10.4337/9781035306596.00033
Abstract
The nature of human morality spans academic disciplines and the daily lives of all people living in social groups. Much of this work focuses on either abstract, global moral codes or the ways that individuals process such information. Sociological social psychology bridges these fields, and attempts to study how, when, and for whom such codes, beliefs, norms, and so forth influence interaction. The study of mutual expectations, judgments, and interaction at the root of sociological social psychology is, as Goffman argued, fundamentally moral. The authors outline this perspective, and show how morality allows for truly interdisciplinary research that, they suggest, sociologists have not fully participated in. They provide a brief road map of the typical (“thin”) concepts explored within moral psychology and suggest some broader (“thick”) concepts that could profitably bridge sociological social psychology with the rest of the discipline, and cognate academic fields. They conclude by presenting some newer methodological approaches that they think can advance the field.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Social psychology and morality
- Creators
- Steven HitlinRegan Smock
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Handbook of Social Psychology, pp.349-360
- Series
- Research Handbooks on Social Psychology series
- DOI
- 10.4337/9781035306596.00033
- Publisher
- Edward Elgar Publishing; Cheltenham, UK
- Number of pages
- 12
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2025
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology
- Record Identifier
- 9984845452102771
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