Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- 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 -- 2 Virtues and Human Personhood in the Social Sciences -- Part 2 The Founders and Intellectual Heritage -- 3 Durkheim's Theory of Social Solidarity and Social Rules -- 4 Beyond the Altruism-Egoism Dichotomy: A New Typology to Capture Morality as a Complex Phenomenon -- 5 The Explanatory Power of Ethics: The Sociology of Jane Addams -- 6 Pitirim Sorokin's Heritage: From Core Ideas to Syntheses of Theory and of Practice -- 7 Modern Roots of the Sociology of Love: Tolstoy, Addams, Gandhi, and Sorokin -- Part 3 Core Ideas: Elaborations and Implications -- 8 Six Sources of Altruism: Springs of Morality and Solidarity -- 9 Social Psychological Ingredients for a Sociology of Morality -- 10 On Social Solidarity -- 11 Solidarity, Yesterday and Today -- Part 4 Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity: Interrelationships and Applications -- 12 The Evolution of Affect, Sociality, Altruism, and Conscience in Humans -- 13 Morality as a Cultural System: On Solidarity Civil and Uncivil -- 14 The Essential Interconnections among Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity: The Case of Religious Altruism -- 15 Linking Morality, Altruism, and Social Solidarity Using Identity Theory -- 16 Making Morals: Standard-Setting in Organizations -- 17 Self, Identity, and Politics in the Study of Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity: The Promise of Deliberative Democracy -- 18 Beyond Altruism: Philanthropy as Moral Biography and Moral Citizenship of Care -- Notes on Contributors -- Name Index -- Subject Index.

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