Handbook of the Sociology of Morality, Volume 2

Steve Hitlin is Professor of Sociology & Criminology at the University of Iowa. He is the co-author of Unequal Foundations (2018, Oxford), co-author of the forthcoming The Science of Dignity (Oxford) and a co-editor of the Handbook of the Sociology of Morality, Vol. 1 (2010). His work has appeared in a variety of journals across social science, including the American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, Social Psychology Quarterly, Child Development, Social Forces and Social Science Review. He publishes on morality, values, agency, identity, dignity, and other hard-to-define concepts.

Shai M. Dromi is Associate Senior Lecturer on Sociology at Harvard University. He is the author of Above the Fray: The Red Cross and the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2020) and Moral Minefields: How Sociologists Debate Good Science (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2023, co-authored with Samuel D. Stabler). Hiswork has appeared in journals such as Theory & Society, Sociological Theory, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and Rural Sociology. He publishes on religion, humanitarian aid, morality, organizations, and social knowledge production.

Aliza Luft is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is currently completing a book, Sacred Treason: Race, Religion, and The Holocaust in France, under contract with Harvard University Press. Other work has appeared in journals such as Sociological Theory, Sociology Compass, European Journal of Sociology, Qualitative Sociology, and Political Power and Social Theory. She also regularly contributes to public sociology in venues such as The Washington Post; New Yorker; LA Times; NY Times; and elsewhere. Her research examines the fluctuating relationships between social identity, ideology, and interpersonal, socio-political action in contexts marked by war and violence.

Introduction.- Part 1. Defining and conceptualizing morality.- 1. New Directions in the Sociology of Morality.- 2. Is There Such a Thing as Moral Phenomenon, or Should We Be Looking at the Moral Dimension of Phenomena.- Part 2. Organizations, Organizational Culture, and Morality.- 3. Where Law and Morality Meet:  Moral Agency and Moral Deskilling in Organizations.- 4. The Darker Side of Strong Organizational Cultures: Looking Forward by Looking Back.- Part 3. Embodiment, Emotions, and Morality.- 5. The Structure, Culture, and Biology: Driving Moralization of the Human Universe.- 6. Missing Emotions in the Sociology of Morality.- 7. Sociology, Embodiment and Morality: A Durkheimian Perspective.- 8. Physiological Rhythms and Entrainment Niches: Morality as Interpersonal Music.- 9. Grounding Oughtness: Morality of Coordination, Immorality of Disruption.- Part 4. Morality and the Life Cycle.- 10. The Sociology of Children and Youth Morality.- 11. Aging andMorality.- Part 5. Moral Decision-Making, Mobilization, and Helping Behavior.- 12. The Moral Identity in Sociology.- 13. Morality and Relationships, Real and Imagined.- 14. Altruism, Morality, and The Morality of Altruism.- 15. Prosocial decision-making among groups and individuals: A social-psychological approach.- 16. Moral Decision-Making Processes in their Organizational, Institutional, and Historical Contexts.- 17. Examining Moral Decision-Making During Genocide: Rescue in the Case of 1994 Rwanda.- Part 6. Nature, Culture, and Morality.- 18. The Influence of the Nature-Culture Dualism on Morality.- 19. Animals and Society.- Part 7. Culture, Historical Sociology, and Morality.- 20. Culture, Morality, and the Matter of Facts.- 21. Historical Sociology of Morality.- 22. History of the Present: Assessing Morality Across Temporalities.- 23. Social Justice as a Field.- Part 8. Class, Inequality, and Morality.- 24. What Sort of Social Inequality Matters for Democracy? Relations and Distributions.- 25. Slippery Subjects: The Moral Politics of Studying Up.- 26. Morality, Inequality, and the Power of Categories.- Part 9. Morality, Civic Culture, and the State.- 27. Civic Morality: Democracy and Social Good.- 28. Bridging the Sociologies of Morality and Migration: The Moral Underpinnings of Borders, Policies, and Immigrants.- 29. Cultural Threat and Market Failure: Moral Decline Narratives on the Religious Right and Left.- 30. Morality and Civil Society.- Part 10. Looking Ahead: New Frontiers in the Sociology of Morality.- 31. Understanding Morality in a Racialized Society.- 32. Leaving the Sequestered Byway: A Forward Look at Sociology's Morals and Practical Problem-Solving.