The study of altruism, morality, and social solidarity is an emerging field of scholarship and research in sociology. This handbook will function as a foundational source for this subject matter and field, and as an impetus to its further development.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures and Tables
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Part 1 General Perspectives and Future Directions
• 1 Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity as a Field of Study - Vincent Jeffries
• 2 Virtues and Human Personhood in the Social Sciences - Margarita A. Mooney
• Part 2 The Founders and Intellectual Heritage
• 3 Durkheim's Theory of Social Solidarity and Social Rules - Alexander Gofman
• 4 Beyond the Altruism-Egoism Dichotomy: A New Typology to Capture Morality as a Complex Phenomenon - Raquel Weiss and Paulo Peres
• 5 The Explanatory Power of Ethics: The Sociology of Jane Addams - Patricia Lengermann and Gillian Niebrugge
• 6 Pitirim Sorokin's Heritage: From Core Ideas to Syntheses of Theory and of Practice - Pavel Krotov
• 7 Modern Roots of the Sociology of Love: Tolstoy, Addams, Gandhi, and Sorokin - Lawrence T. Nichols
• Part 3 Core Ideas: Elaborations and Implications
• 8 Six Sources of Altruism: Springs of Morality and Solidarity - Stephen G. Post
• 9 Social Psychological Ingredients for a Sociology of Morality - Steven Hitlin
• 10 On Social Solidarity - Christian Smith and Katherine Sorrell
• 11 Solidarity, Yesterday and Today - Edward A. Tiryakian and Jonathan H. Morgan
• Part 4 Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity: Interrelationships and Applications
• 12 The Evolution of Affect, Sociality, Altruism, and Conscience in Humans - Jonathan H. Turner
• 13 Morality as a Cultural System: On Solidarity Civil and Uncivil - Jeffrey C. Alexander
• 14 The Essential Interconnections among Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity: The Case of Religious Altruism - Matthew T. Lee
• 15 Linking Morality, Altruism, and Social Solidarity Using Identity Theory - Jan E. Stets and Kevin McCaffree
• 16 Making Morals: Standard-Setting in Organizations - Sorcha A. Brophy
• 17 Self, Identity, and Politics in the Study of Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity: The Promise of Deliberative Democracy - Peter L. Callero
• 18 Beyond Altruism: Philanthropy as Moral Biography and Moral Citizenship of Care - Paul G. Schervish
• Notes on Contributors
• Name Index
• Subject Index