Unequal Foundations
Inequality, Morality, and Emotions across Cultures
Series: Perspectives on Justice and Morality;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 8 February 2018
- ISBN 9780190465407
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 239x155x25 mm
- Weight 544 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Unequal Foundations offers readers a novel theory and an original use of cross-cultural data to assert that the level of economic inequality in a society is reflected in the emotional experience of its members.
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Unequal Foundations offers readers a novel theory and a unique use of cross-cultural data to assert that the level of economic inequality in a society is reflected in the emotional experience of its members. People living in societies with more equality (countries such as Japan, Germany, and Canada) generally experience more positive, binding emotions on a regular basis. On the other hand, those living in unequal societies (the United States and China, for example) are significantly more likely to regularly experience negative, sanctioning moral emotions. In this book, authors Steven Hitlin and Sarah K. Harkness explore the idea that morality operates at both the societal and individual levels, and contend that individual moral emotions represent the distal structure of society.
In addition to developing this broad theory ranging from society to the individual, Hitlin and Harkness offer their readers a novel use of data from a tool drawn from the affect control theory tradition in order to demonstrate empirical support for this theory. As such, the authors delve deeper than previous literature by presenting data that supports their general approach using a method designed for cross-cultural comparative research.
Unequal Foundations is a provocative book that suggests that income inequality induces harsher moral judgments and neg-ative moral emotions and plays a more critical role in moral judgments and emotion than the cultural syndrome of individualism collectivism.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 A Primer on Inequality
Chapter 3 The Social Scientific Study of Morality
Chapter 4 The Difficulty of Studying Morality Across Cultures
Chapter 5 Morality as a Measure of Society
Chapter 6 The Theory of Inequality and Moral Emotions
Chapter 7 Affect Control Theory: How Do Cultures Draw Moral Lines?
Chapter 8 Methodology and a Description of the Data
Chapter 9 Empirical Analysis
Chapter 10 Conclusion
