Steven Hitlin, Sarah K Harkness

Unequal Foundations

Inequality, Morality, and Emotions Across Cultures

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Produktbeschreibung

Unequal Foundations offers readers a novel theory and an original use of cross-cultural data to assert that the level of economic inequality in a society is reflected in the emotional experience of its members.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780190465407
• ISBN-10: 0190465409
• Artikelnr.: 49087267

Autorenporträt

Steven Hitlin is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Iowa. He has published numerous articles in sociological and psychological journals about morality, the self, agency, and racial identification. He is the author of Moral Selves, Evil Selves, the Social Psychology of Conscience (2008, Palgrave Macmillan) and, along with Stephen Vaisey, is the lead editor of the Handbook of The Sociology of Morality (2010, Springer). Sarah K. Harkness is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Iowa. Her work centers on the social psychology of inequality and has published articles in the areas of emotions, morality, status, and affect control theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 A Primer on Inequality
Chapter 3 The Social Scientific Study of Morality
Chapter 4 The Difficulty of Studying Morality Across Cultures
Chapter 5 Morality as a Measure of Society
Chapter 6 The Theory of Inequality and Moral Emotions
Chapter 7 Affect Control Theory: How Do Cultures Draw Moral Lines?
Chapter 8 Methodology and a Description of the Data
Chapter 9 Empirical Analysis
Chapter 10 Conclusion