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Author Hitlin, Steven, author

Title Unequal foundations : inequality, morality, and emotions across cultures / Steven Hitlin and Sarah K. Harkness
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Series Perspectives on justice and morality
Perspectives on justice and morality.
Contents Introduction -- A primer on inequality -- The social scientific study of morality -- The difficulty of studying morality across cultures -- Morality as a measure of society -- The theory of inequality and moral emotions -- Affect control theory: how do cultures draw moral lines? -- Methodology and a description of the data -- Empirical analysis -- Conclusion
Summary '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
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 15, 2017)
Subject Equality -- Cross-cultural studies
Income distribution -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
Moral conditions -- Cross-cultural studies
Moral development -- Cross-cultural studies
Ethics -- Cross-cultural studies
Equality
Ethics
Income distribution -- Social aspects
Moral conditions
Moral development
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
Author Harkness, Sarah K., author
ISBN 9780190862435
0190862432