Everyday Moralities: Doing It Ourselves in an Age of Uncertainty

ISBN-13: 9780367670726 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 156 str.

Nicholas Hookway

Opis

This insightful book asks how late-modern subjects construct, understand and experience morality in a context of moral uncertainty using an innovative theoretical synthesis, which is combined with new empirical material drawn from online diaries or blogs.

Recenzje

‘The analysis in Everyday Moralities is wonderfully clear and perceptive throughout, proving suitable for a wide audience, ranging from theorists of morality to digital ethnographers, along with graduate students investigating the resurgent sociology of morality. …a much-needed alternative to moral decline perspectives, demonstrating how late-modern subjects thoughtfully labour to craft moral worlds worth living in.’ – Matt Wade, Journal of Sociology

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Moral Life in the 21^st Century

2. Moral Decline Sociology and the Legacy of Durkheim

3. Beyond Moral Decline: Theorising Alternative Moral Structures

4. DIY Morality and the Problem of Narcissism

5. ‘DIY Spirituality’, ‘DIY Catholics’ and ‘Anti-DIY’ Fundamentalists

6. Love as Moral Space? The Morality of ‘Moving On’

7. Animals and Ethics: Being for the Non-Human Other

8. Conclusion: Moral Futures

Appendix: Cast of Characters

References

Index

O autorze

Nicholas Hookway is Senior Lecturer in Sociology within the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania, Australia.