Summary, integration, and fundamental issues

Neil J. MacKinnon

Chapter 10 in The Social Psychology of Morality, 2025, pp 129-149 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter begins by providing a chapter-by-chapter summary of this book. Following a comparison of the macro-sociological social facts and the micro-sociological social definitions paradigms, the ensuing discussion identifies Durkheim, Weber, Marx, Parsons, Berger and Luckmann as bridging these fundamental paradigms. This is followed by a discussion of theories of morality that also do so, singling out the social psychological theories of Mead, Hitlin, and affect control theory as important paradigm bridgers. The chapter concludes with a detailed discussion of more fundamental issues underlying theories of morality, including the reality of individual subjectivity and social phenomena and related issues of reductionism and emergence. Discussion of these issues draws upon Berger and Luckmann, critical realism, the author's personal interpretation of social realism, and Sawyer's analysis of Durkheim as a theorist of emergence.

Keywords: Morality; Paradigms; Social reality; Reductionism; Emergence; Critical realism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035364732
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