The New Sociology of Morality

Hitlin, Steven; Vaisey, Stephen

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“…Eminent contemporary sociologists of morality and culture Steven Hitlin and Stephen Vaisey write that, though the modern sociology of morality covers a broad range of issue‐specific topics such as abortion politics, protest movements and welfare policy, “What unites these diverse studies as part of the sociology of morality is not a shared substantive focus, but the recognition that moral evaluations and categorizations are an essential part of struggles in ‘social fields,’” (Hitlin & Vaisey, , pg. 59, italics added).…”

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Moral Realism in Historical Sociological Theory

McCaffree

2018

J Historical Sociology

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Sociologists of morality often assume the field can undertake descriptive studies of moral claims (e.g., what are the social origins of moral systems, in what ways do moral systems change over time) but ought not and, indeed cannot, speak to the rightness or wrongness of moral claims in any scientific sense. However, many founders of the field of sociology suggested that moral claims should be viewed as historically, demographically and ecologically situated interdisciplinary attempts at establishing scientific facts about human well‐being. This essay reviews the moral realism of sociology's founders, underscoring important components from each theorist's approach.

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Section: Discussion and Conclusion: A Realist Foundation For The Socimentioning

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Moral Realism in Historical Sociological Theory

McCaffree

2018

J Historical Sociology

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“…It was argued here that the physician's perceptions of what is appropriate in the clinic have strong structural relationships that influence what they see as the role of a physician. Work within the sociology of morality shows social structures are linked to perceptions of what one should do in a given situation (Hitlin and Vaisey 2013;Rawls 1987;Rawls 2010;Schwalbe 1991), and a fruitful path for further work could focus on how the mix or even conflict of multiple structural ties impact physicians' perception of their work. Indeed, elsewhere Curlin has referred to physicians as "practical philosophers" because of the frequent link between personal moral views and the implication these have on professional work (Curlin 2008).…”

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Patient or Physician Centered Care?: Structural Implications for Clinical Interactions and the Overlooked Patient

Franzen

2017

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Patient-centered care is widely supported by physicians, but this wide-spread support potentially obscures the social patterning of clinical interactions. We know that patients often want religious/spiritual conversations in the context of medical care but the provision is infrequent. As there is regional variance in religiosity, a gap in the literature exists regarding whether patient populations' religiosity is connected to physicians' self-reported religious/spiritual interactions. Using a national sample of U.S. physicians linked to county-level measures, the author test whether both physicians' background and patient population characteristics are related to religious/spiritual interactions. Specifically, do physicians in more religious locations report more frequent religious interactions and is this dependent on whether the physician is also religious? Or does the religiosity of patient populations fail to explain variance in the frequency of inclusion? Logistic regressions with spatial lag terms highlight the importance of physicians' background for inclusion of religiosity/spirituality. County-level variance of religious concentration is largely unrelated to the inclusion of religiosity/spirituality. The provision of patient-centered care is complicated. The inclusion of something patient-specific, such as religious/spiritual content, may not depend on the characteristics of the patient population, but those of the physician they see.

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“…In this article, the notion of altruism and its significance as a cultural value motivating ethical practices and acts of bodily giving is framed through the lens of the ‘new sociology of morality’. In this new wave of writing, Hitlin and Vaisey (, ) outline a range of diverse research traditions and studies, united by the call for more sociological attention to the moral dimensions of social life and an examination of the social sources and consequences of moral behaviours and practices in twenty‐first‐century societies.…”

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“…In this article, I draw insight from this work to propose an approach to the study of altruism and the donation of human biological materials that is situated at the interface of the new sociology of morality (Hitlin and Vaisey , ) and affect studies (Ahmed , Hardt , Hardt and Negri , Massumi ). To do so, I focus principally on the experiences and views of kidney and breastmilk donors who are located within moral economies of giving, and for whom the provision and transfer of body parts, tissue and services are affectively meaningful.…”

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Altruism, solidarity and affect in live kidney donation and breastmilk sharing

Shaw

2018

Sociology Health & Illness

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Social scientists have recently diverged from mainstream bioethical discussion on the topic of the medical use of human biological materials for therapeutic, reproductive and research purposes. Rather than justifying the donation and provision of biological materials solely in terms of alleviating physical, psychological and social suffering, saving or enhancing life, and advancing biomedical knowledge, this work looks beyond humanist bioethics to take a social justice approach to questions of the life sciences. In this article, I draw insight from these accounts to propose an approach to the sociology of live kidney and breastmilk donation that is situated at the interface of the new sociology of morality and affect studies. To do so, I examine the moral economy of tissue provision with respect to its organisation around the discourse of altruism and the gift. I then turn to recent work on tissue economies, which are in the business of creating and producing biovalue, to discuss the manipulation of affect and the entanglement of new forms of bio-intimacy in the production and reproduction of somatic life. The aim of the article was to contribute to the study of the sociology of donation as a substantive field of specialisation within sociology.

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The New Sociology of Morality

Cited by 252 publications

References 94 publications

Moral Realism in Historical Sociological Theory

Moral Realism in Historical Sociological Theory

Patient or Physician Centered Care?: Structural Implications for Clinical Interactions and the Overlooked Patient

Altruism, solidarity and affect in live kidney donation and breastmilk sharing

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