Social Theorists of Morality

Owen Abbott is Lecturer in Social Sciences at Cardiff University, UK. He is the author of The Self, Relational Sociology, and Morality in Practice, which was awarded the British Sociological Association's Philip Abrams Memorial Prize in 2020 for best first, sole-authored book. He is co-author of Masking in the Pandemic: Materiality, Interaction, and Moral Practice. His research focuses on moral practice, moral agency, and the moral dynamics of personal lives. He has recently completed a Leverhulme Trust funded empirical project exploring forgiving and not forgiving in personal relationships.

1. Introduction.- 2. W. E. B. Du Bois's Forgotten Sociology of Morality: Contesting the Foundations and Informing the Future of the Sociology of Morality.- 3. George Herbert Mead: Morality from the Perspective of the Act, Self, and Experience.- 4. Jane Addams's Sociology of Moral Practice and Practice of Moral Sociology.- 5. Alisdair MacIntyre: Virtue, Practices, Identity and Traditions.- 6. Carol Gilligan's Different Moral Voice: Gender, Ethics of Care, and the Reconstitution of the Moral Domain.- 7. Seyla Benhabib: Interactive Universalism, the Concrete Other, and Discourse Ethics.- 8. Kwame Anthony Appiah: Ethics, Identity, and Idealization.- 9. Jonathan Haidt: Social Intuitionism and Moral Foundations Theory.- 10. Conclusion: A Social Perspective on Moral Agency.