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Abbott, O (2025) Social Theorists of Morality: Essays on Moral Agency. Palgrave https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-75181-3
Abbott, O. 2020. The Self, Relational sociology, and Morality in Practice. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Abbott, O. 2022. W. E. B. Du Bois’s forgotten sociology of morality: Contesting the foundations and informing the future of the sociology of morality. The Sociological Review doi: 10.1177/00380261221138207.
Abend, G. 2008. Two main problems in the sociology of morality. Theory and Society 37(2), pp. 87–125. doi: 10.1007/s11186-007-9044-y.
Abend, G. 2019. Moral decisionism and its discontents. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 49(1), pp. 59–83. doi: 10.1111/jtsb.12191.
Abend, G., Posselt, L. and Schenk, P. 2025. New Frontiers in the New Sociology of Morality: From AI and Inequality to Backgrounds and Material Enablers. Sociology Compass 19(1), p. e70024. doi: 10.1111/soc4.70024.
Addams, J. 2001. Long Road of Woman’s Memory. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Addams, J. 2001. Long Road of Woman’s Memory. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Addams, J. 2013. Democracy and Social Ethics. Harvard University Press.
Bargheer, S. 2018. Moral Entanglements: Conserving Birds in Britain and Germany. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Available at:
Bargheer, S. and Wilson, N.H. 2018. On the Historical Sociology of Morality: Introduction. European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie 59(1), pp. 1–12. doi: 10.1017/S0003975618000012.
Benhabib, S. 1992. Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Bykov, A. 2017. Altruism: New perspectives of research on a classical theme in sociology of morality. Current Sociology 65(6), pp. 797–813. doi: 10.1177/0011392116657861.
Bykov, A. 2019. Rediscovering the Moral: The ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Sociology of Morality in the Context of the Behavioural Sciences. Sociology 53(1), pp. 192–207. doi: 10.1177/0038038518783967.
Deegan, M.J. 1988. Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892-1918. Transaction Publishers.
Gilligan, C. 1982. In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Henig, D., Strhan, A. and Robbins, J. eds. 2024. Where is the Good in the World?: Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy. Berghahn Books.
Hitlin, S. and Vaisey, S. 2013. The New Sociology of Morality. Annual Review of Sociology 39, pp. 51–68.
Hitlin, S. and Vaisey, S. eds. 2010. Handbook of the Sociology of Morality. New York: Springer-Verlag. Available at: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781441968944
Hitlin, S., Dromi, S.M. and Luft, A. eds. 2023. Handbook of the Sociology of Morality, Volume 2. Cham: Springer International Publishing. Available at: https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-32022-4
Jeffries, V. ed. 2014. The Palgrave Handbook of Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan http://link.springer.com/10.1057/9781137391865
Joas, H. 2000. The Genesis of Values. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Keane, W. 2016. Ethical Life: Its Natural and Social Histories. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Keane, W. 2024. Animals, Robots, Gods. Available at: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/454066/animals-robots-gods-by-keane-webb/9780241613207
Lamont, M. 1992. Money, Morals, and Manners: The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Lamont, M. 2009. The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration. Harvard University Press.
Lamont, M. 2023. Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World. Allen Lane.
Lukes, S. 1985. Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work: A Historical and Critical Study. Stanford, Stanford University Press.
Lukes, S. 2009. Moral Relativism. London: Profile Books.
Lukes, S. 2025. The Diversity of Morals. Princeton University Press.
Mattingly, C. and Throop, J. 2018. The Anthropology of Ethics and Morality. Annual Review of Anthropology 47(1), pp. 475–492. doi: 10.1146/annurev-anthro-102317-050129.
Moody–Adams, M. 1997. Fieldwork in Familiar Places – Morality, Culture & Philosophy: Morality, Culture and Philosophy. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
Raza, S. and Watts, G. 2025. Between Description and Evaluation: How Sociologists Do Normativity. The American Sociologist. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-025-09650-w.
Sayer, A. 2005. The Moral Significance of Class. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sayer, A. 2011. Why Things Matter to People: Social Science, Values and Ethical Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Tavory, I. 2011. The Question of Moral Action: A Formalist Position. Sociological Theory 29(4), pp. 272–293. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9558.2011.01400.x.
Tronto, J. 1994. Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care. New York: Routledge.
Abbott, O. 2024. Jonathan Haidt: Social Intuitionism and Moral Foundations Theory. In: Social Theorists of Morality: Essays on Moral Agency. Cham: Springer, pp. 261–301. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-75181-3_9
Abend, G. 2011. Thick Concepts and the Moral Brain. European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie 52(1), pp. 143–172. doi: 10.1017/S0003975611000051.
Abend, G. 2013. What the Science of Morality Doesn’t Say About Morality. Philosophy of the Social Sciences 43(2), pp. 157–200. doi: 10.1177/0048393112440597.
Abend, G. 2019. Thick Concepts and Sociological Research. Sociological Theory 37(3), pp. 209–233. doi: 10.1177/0735275119869979.
Atari, M., Haidt, J., Graham, J., Koleva, S., Stevens, S.T. and Dehghani, M. 2023. Morality beyond the WEIRD: How the nomological network of morality varies across cultures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 125(5), pp. 1157–1188. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000470.
Blum, L.A. 1988. Gilligan and Kohlberg: Implications for Moral Theory. Ethics 98(3), pp. 472–491. doi: 10.1086/292966.
Dewey, J. 1896. The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology. Psychological Review 3(4), pp. 357–370. doi: 10.1037/h0070405.
Gilligan, C. 1982. In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Graham, J., Haidt, J., Koleva, S., Motyl, M., Iyer, R., Wojcik, S.P. and Ditto, P.H. 2013. Moral Foundations Theory: The Pragmatic Validity of Moral Pluralism. In: Devine, P. and Plant, A. eds. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. Academic Press, pp. 55–130.
Graham, J., Nosek, B.A., Haidt, J., Iyer, R., Koleva, S. and Ditto, P.H. 2011. Mapping the Moral Domain. Journal of personality and social psychology 101(2), pp. 366–385. doi: 10.1037/a0021847.
Haidt, J. 2001. The Emotional Dog and its Rational Tail: A Social Intuitionist Approach to Moral Judgment. Psychological Review 108(4), pp. 814–834. doi: 10.1037/0033-295X.108.4.814.
Haidt, J. 2013. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. London: Penguin.
Luft, A. 2020. Theorizing Moral Cognition: Culture in Action, Situations, and Relationships. Socius 6, p. 2378023120916125. doi: 10.1177/2378023120916125.
Noor, M., Shnabel, N., Halabi, S. and Nadler, A. 2012. When Suffering Begets Suffering: The Psychology of Competitive Victimhood Between Adversarial Groups in Violent Conflicts. Personality and Social Psychology Review 16(4), pp. 351–374. doi: 10.1177/1088868312440048.
Stets, J.E. and Carter, M.J. 2011. The Moral Self: Applying Identity Theory. Social Psychology Quarterly 74(2), pp. 192–215. doi: 10.1177/0190272511407621.
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Abend, G., Posselt, L. and Schenk, P. 2025. New Frontiers in the New Sociology of Morality: From AI and Inequality to Backgrounds and Material Enablers. Sociology Compass 19(1), p. e70024. doi: 10.1111/soc4.70024.
Donika, A.D. 2023. The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Sociological Approach. Bioethics journal 16(2), pp. 26–31. doi: 10.19163/2070-1586-2023-16-2-26-31.
Floridi, P.L. 2023. The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Principles, Challenges, and Opportunities. Oxford.
Keane, W. 2024. Animals, Robots, Gods. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/454066/animals-robots-gods-by-keane-webb/9780241613207
Misselhorn, C. 2018. Artificial Morality. Concepts, Issues and Challenges. Society 55(2), pp. 161–169. doi: 10.1007/s12115-018-0229-y.
Schenk, P., Müller, V.A. and Keiser, L. 2024. Social Status and the Moral Acceptance of Artificial Intelligence. Sociological Science 11, pp. 989–1016. doi: 10.15195/v11.a36.
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Shadbolt, N. and Hampson, R. 2024. As If Human: Ethics and Artificial Intelligence. Yale University Press.
Stelios, S. and Theologou, K. eds. 2025. The Ethics Gap in the Engineering of the Future: Moral Challenges for the Technology of Tomorrow. Emerald Publishing
Abbott, O. 2020. The Self, Relational sociology, and Morality in Practice. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Abbott, O., May, V., Woodward, S., Meckin, R. and Gilman, L. 2023. Masking in the Pandemic: Materiality, Interaction, and Moral Practice. Cham: Springer. https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-45781-4
Balmer, A., Meckin, R. and Abbott, O. 2021. The Temporal Uses of Moral Things: Manifesting, Anchoring and Conserving Caring Relations within the Sensorium. Sociology 55(3), pp. 619–640. doi: 10.1177/0038038520959263.
Barnes, M. 2012. Care in Everyday Life: An Ethic of Care in Practice. Policy Press.
Chattoo, S. and Ahmad, W.I.U. 2008. The moral economy of selfhood and caring: negotiating boundaries of personal care as embodied moral practice. Sociology of Health & Illness 30(4), pp. 550–564. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.01072.x.
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Strhan, A. and Shillitoe, R. 2025. Growing Up Godless: Non-Religious Childhoods in Contemporary England. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Strhan, A., Lee, L. and Shillitoe, R. 2024. Becoming Humanist: Worldview Formation and the Emergence of Atheist Britain. Sociology of Religion 85(4): 454-481. https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/srad050
Turpin, H. 2022. Unholy Catholic Ireland: Religious Hypocrisy, Secular Morality, and Irish Irreligion. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Watts, G. 2022. The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Abbott, O. 2020. The Self, Relational sociology, and Morality in Practice. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Balmer, A., Meckin, R. and Abbott, O. 2021. The Temporal Uses of Moral Things: Manifesting, Anchoring and Conserving Caring Relations within the Sensorium. Sociology 55(3), pp. 619–640. doi: 10.1177/0038038520959263.
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Hamington, M. 2007. Care Ethics and International Justice: The Cosmopolitanism of Jane Addams and Kwame Anthony Appiah.
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Lamont, M. 2009. The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration. Harvard University Press.
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Sayer, A. 2011. Why Things Matter to People: Social Science, Values and Ethical Life. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press.
Abbott, O. 2020. The self as the locus of morality: A comparison between Charles Taylor and George Herbert Mead’s theories of the moral constitution of the self. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 50(4), pp. 516–533. doi: 10.1111/jtsb.12258.
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Abbott, O. and Burkitt, I. 2023. Moral identity, identification and emotion: a relational and interactive approach. International Review of Sociology 33(2), pp. 326–348. doi: 10.1080/03906701.2023.2242648.
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