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The AMSS reading list was developed to answer the question:
“What readings do you consider essential for people interested in the topics of the AMSS section?” Members of the AMSS section were asked this question via a survey that was distributed on the section listserv. Participants were invited to provide up to five titles, contemporary or classic. The following reading list (in alphabetical order) includes 73 titles that were listed in the responses. Titles that were nominated multiple times appear in bold, with the number of nominations shown in parentheses. A total of 20 members completed the survey, making the list preliminary and not necessarily representative of the full section’s essential reading list. Are there any titles you think are missing, or titles you think should receive more votes? Please continue to add to the list through this form: |
Abend, Gabriel. 2008. “Two Main Problems in the Sociology of Morality.” Theory and Society, 37(2):87–125.
Abend, Gabriel. 2014. The Moral Background: An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (3 Votes)
Abbott, Owen. 2020. The Self, Relational Sociology, and Morality in Practice. New York, NY: Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology.
Alexander, Jeffrey C. 2006. The Civil Sphere. Oxford University Press.
Arditi, Jorge. 1998. A Genealogy of Manners: Transformations of Social Relations in France and England from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Baggetta, Matthew. 2016. “Representative Bridging: Voluntary Associations’ Potential for Creating Bridging Ties in Demographically Diverse Urban Areas.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 45(1S): 72S – 94S.
Barman, Emily. 2016. Caring Capitalism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Bellah, Robert N., Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton. 2007. Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. (2 Votes)
Black, Donald. 2011. Moral Time. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Boehm, Christopher. 2012. Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Boltanski, Luc, & Thévenot, Laurent. 2006. On Justification: Economies of Worth. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Bowles, Samuel, and Herbert Gintis. 2013. A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Braun, Robert. 2016. “Religious Minorities and Resistance to Genocide: The Collective Rescue of Jews in the Netherlands during the Holocaust.” The American Political Science Review, 110(1): 127–47.
Brooks, David. 2012. The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement. Crawfordsville, IL: Random House.
Chambliss, Daniel F. 1996. Beyond Caring: Hospitals, Nurses, and the Social Organization of Ethics. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Coley, Jonathan S., Dakota K. T. Raynes, and Dhruba Das. 2020. “Are Social Movements Truly Social? The Prosocial and Antisocial Outcomes of Social Movements.” Sociology Compass 14(8):e12820. doi: 10.1111/soc4.12820.
Dewey, John. 2008. Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education. Stuttgart, DE: Macmillan Company.
Dubin, Robert. 1992. Central Life Interests: Creative Individualism in a Complex World. Livingston, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Durkheim, Émile. [1925] 1961. Moral Education. New York, NY: The Free Press. (2 Votes)
Durkheim, Émile. [1912] 1995. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. New York: The Free Press.
Eliasoph, Nina. 1998. Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Enoch, David. 2011. Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Ferrucci, Piero. 2007. The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life. New York, NY: TarcherPerigee.
Glanville, Jennifer L. and Pamela Paxton. 2007. “How Do We Learn to Trust? A Confirmatory Tetrad Analysis of the Sources of Generalized Trust.” Social Psychology Quarterly, 70(3): 230–42.
Greene, Joshua David. 2014. Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them. London, UK: Penguin Books.
Haidt, Jonathan. 2006. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Haidt, Jonathan. 2012. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. New York, NY: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Han, Hahrie. 2014. How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Healy, Kieran. 2006. Last Best Gifts: Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and Organs. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Hitlin, Steven and Sarah K. Harkness. 2017. Unequal Foundations: Inequality, Morality, and Emotions Across Cultures. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Hitlin, Steven and Stephen Vaisey. 2010. Handbook of the Sociology of Morality. Heidelberg, GE: Springer Science & Business Media. (2 Votes)
Hitlin, Steven and Stephen Vaisey. 2013. “The New Sociology of Morality.” Annual Review of Sociology, 39: 51–68 (3 Votes)
Hoekstra, Erin, and Joseph Gerteis. 2019. “The Civic Side of Diversity: Ambivalence and Belonging at the Neighborhood Level.” City & Community 18(1):195–212. doi: 10.1111/cico.12363.
Illich, Ivan. 1968. “To Hell with Good Intentions.” in Conference on Inter-American Student Projects. Cuernavaca, Mexico. Retrieved from: http://www.alterinfos.org/spip.php?article5168
Jeffries, Vincent. 2014. The Palgrave Handbook of Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity: Formulating a Field of Study. New York, NY: Springer. (2 Votes)
Joas, Hans. 2000. The Genesis of Values. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Joosse, Paul. 2017. “Expanding Moral Panic Theory to Include the Agency of Charismatic Entrepreneurs.” The British Journal of Criminology, 58(4): 993–1012.
Katz, Jack. 1975. “Essences as Moral Identities: Verifiability and Responsibility in Imputations of Deviance and Charisma.” The American Journal of Sociology, 80(6): 1369–90.
Keltner, Dacher. 2009. Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company.
Kucinskas, Jaime. 2018. The Mindful Elite: Mobilizing from the Inside Out. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Lasker, Judith N. 2016. Hoping to Help: The Promises and Pitfalls of Global Health Volunteering. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Lukes, Steven. 2008. Moral Relativism. Picador.
Mackie, John. 1990. Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. London, UK: Penguin UK.
McPherson, Miller, Lynn Smith-Lovin, and Matthew E. Brashears. 2006. “Social Isolation in America: Changes in Core Discussion Networks over Two Decades.” American Sociological Review, 71(3): 353–75.
Meyer, John W. and Ronald L. Jepperson. 2000. “The ‘Actors’ of Modern Society: The Cultural Construction of Social Agency.” Sociological Theory, 18(1): 100–120.
Monroe, Kristen Renwick. 1998. The Heart of Altruism: Perceptions of a Common Humanity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Morris, Aldon D. 1984. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change. New York, NY: Free Press.
Motwane, Arman. 2007. Yes, You Can Change the World. India: Prakash Press.
Nietzsche, Friedrich. [1887] 2017. Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morality and Other Writings. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Norretranders, Tor. 2006. The Generous Man: How Helping Others Is the Sexiest Thing You Can Do. Da Capo Press.
Ostertag, Stephen F. 2014. "Becoming Pure: The Civil Sphere, Media Practices and Constructing Civil Purification." Cultural Sociology, 8(1): 45-62.
Ostertag, Stephen F. 2016. "Expressions of Right and Wrong: The Emergence of a Cultural Structure of Journalism." In The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered: Democratic Culture, Professional Codes, Digital Futures. J. C. Alexander, E. B. Breese, and M. Luengo (eds). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Ostertag, Stephen F. and David G. Ortiz. 2017. "Can Social Media Use Produce Enduring Social Ties? Affordances and the Case of Katrina Bloggers." Qualitative Sociology, 40: 59-82
Ostertag, Stephen F. and Lucas Diaz. 2017. "A critical strong program: Cultural power and racialized civil exclusion." American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 5: 34-67
Pinker, Steven. 2011. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Vol. 75. New York: Viking New York.
Putnam, Robert D. 2000. “Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital.” Pp. 223–34 in Culture and politics. New York, NY:Springer. (2 Votes)
Robinson, Candice C. n.d. “Black Middle-Class Interpretations of Civic Engagement: ‘It’s What You’re Supposed to Do.’” 23.
Salamon, Lester M. and Helmut K. Anheier. 1996. The Nonprofit Sector: A New Global Force. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University, Institute for Policy Studies.
Sayer, Andrew. 2009. The Moral Significance of Class. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Shostak, Arthur B. 2017. Stealth Altruism: Forbidden Care as Jewish Resistance in the Holocaust. New York: Routledge. (2 Votes)
Skocpol, Theda. [2003] 2013. Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
Smith, David Horton. 2000. Grassroots Associations. Los Angeles, LA: SAGE Publications.
Sorokin, Pitirim A. [1954] 2015. Ways & Power Of Love: Techniques Of Moral Transformation. West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Foundation Press.
Stebbins, Robert A. 1996. “Volunteering: A Serious Leisure Perspective.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 25(2): 211–24.
Stebbins, Robert A. 2017. Personal Decisions in the Public Square: Beyond Problem Solving into a Positive Sociology. New York, NY: Routledge.
Stets, Jan E. and Michael J. Carter. 2012. “A Theory of the Self for the Sociology of Morality.” American Sociological Review, 77(1): 120–40.
Svoboda, Elizabeth. 2013. What Makes a Hero?: The Surprising Science of Selflessness. New York, NY: Penguin Books.
Taylor, Charles. 1989. Sources of the Self. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Tavory, Iddo. 2011. “The Question of Moral Action: A Formalist Position.” Sociological Theory, 29(4): 272-293.
Tufekci, Zeynep. 2017. Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Vela-McConnell, James A. 1999. Who Is My Neighbor?: Social Affinity in a Modern World. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
Weber, Max. [1905] 2013. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. New York: Routledge.
Wuthnow, Robert. [1991] 2012. Acts of Compassion: Caring for Others and Helping Ourselves. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Abend, Gabriel. 2014. The Moral Background: An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (3 Votes)
Abbott, Owen. 2020. The Self, Relational Sociology, and Morality in Practice. New York, NY: Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology.
Alexander, Jeffrey C. 2006. The Civil Sphere. Oxford University Press.
Arditi, Jorge. 1998. A Genealogy of Manners: Transformations of Social Relations in France and England from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Baggetta, Matthew. 2016. “Representative Bridging: Voluntary Associations’ Potential for Creating Bridging Ties in Demographically Diverse Urban Areas.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 45(1S): 72S – 94S.
Barman, Emily. 2016. Caring Capitalism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Bellah, Robert N., Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton. 2007. Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. (2 Votes)
Black, Donald. 2011. Moral Time. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Boehm, Christopher. 2012. Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Boltanski, Luc, & Thévenot, Laurent. 2006. On Justification: Economies of Worth. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Bowles, Samuel, and Herbert Gintis. 2013. A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Braun, Robert. 2016. “Religious Minorities and Resistance to Genocide: The Collective Rescue of Jews in the Netherlands during the Holocaust.” The American Political Science Review, 110(1): 127–47.
Brooks, David. 2012. The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement. Crawfordsville, IL: Random House.
Chambliss, Daniel F. 1996. Beyond Caring: Hospitals, Nurses, and the Social Organization of Ethics. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Coley, Jonathan S., Dakota K. T. Raynes, and Dhruba Das. 2020. “Are Social Movements Truly Social? The Prosocial and Antisocial Outcomes of Social Movements.” Sociology Compass 14(8):e12820. doi: 10.1111/soc4.12820.
Dewey, John. 2008. Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education. Stuttgart, DE: Macmillan Company.
Dubin, Robert. 1992. Central Life Interests: Creative Individualism in a Complex World. Livingston, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Durkheim, Émile. [1925] 1961. Moral Education. New York, NY: The Free Press. (2 Votes)
Durkheim, Émile. [1912] 1995. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. New York: The Free Press.
Eliasoph, Nina. 1998. Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Enoch, David. 2011. Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Ferrucci, Piero. 2007. The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life. New York, NY: TarcherPerigee.
Glanville, Jennifer L. and Pamela Paxton. 2007. “How Do We Learn to Trust? A Confirmatory Tetrad Analysis of the Sources of Generalized Trust.” Social Psychology Quarterly, 70(3): 230–42.
Greene, Joshua David. 2014. Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them. London, UK: Penguin Books.
Haidt, Jonathan. 2006. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Haidt, Jonathan. 2012. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. New York, NY: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Han, Hahrie. 2014. How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Healy, Kieran. 2006. Last Best Gifts: Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and Organs. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Hitlin, Steven and Sarah K. Harkness. 2017. Unequal Foundations: Inequality, Morality, and Emotions Across Cultures. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Hitlin, Steven and Stephen Vaisey. 2010. Handbook of the Sociology of Morality. Heidelberg, GE: Springer Science & Business Media. (2 Votes)
Hitlin, Steven and Stephen Vaisey. 2013. “The New Sociology of Morality.” Annual Review of Sociology, 39: 51–68 (3 Votes)
Hoekstra, Erin, and Joseph Gerteis. 2019. “The Civic Side of Diversity: Ambivalence and Belonging at the Neighborhood Level.” City & Community 18(1):195–212. doi: 10.1111/cico.12363.
Illich, Ivan. 1968. “To Hell with Good Intentions.” in Conference on Inter-American Student Projects. Cuernavaca, Mexico. Retrieved from: http://www.alterinfos.org/spip.php?article5168
Jeffries, Vincent. 2014. The Palgrave Handbook of Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity: Formulating a Field of Study. New York, NY: Springer. (2 Votes)
Joas, Hans. 2000. The Genesis of Values. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Joosse, Paul. 2017. “Expanding Moral Panic Theory to Include the Agency of Charismatic Entrepreneurs.” The British Journal of Criminology, 58(4): 993–1012.
Katz, Jack. 1975. “Essences as Moral Identities: Verifiability and Responsibility in Imputations of Deviance and Charisma.” The American Journal of Sociology, 80(6): 1369–90.
Keltner, Dacher. 2009. Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company.
Kucinskas, Jaime. 2018. The Mindful Elite: Mobilizing from the Inside Out. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Lasker, Judith N. 2016. Hoping to Help: The Promises and Pitfalls of Global Health Volunteering. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Lukes, Steven. 2008. Moral Relativism. Picador.
Mackie, John. 1990. Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. London, UK: Penguin UK.
McPherson, Miller, Lynn Smith-Lovin, and Matthew E. Brashears. 2006. “Social Isolation in America: Changes in Core Discussion Networks over Two Decades.” American Sociological Review, 71(3): 353–75.
Meyer, John W. and Ronald L. Jepperson. 2000. “The ‘Actors’ of Modern Society: The Cultural Construction of Social Agency.” Sociological Theory, 18(1): 100–120.
Monroe, Kristen Renwick. 1998. The Heart of Altruism: Perceptions of a Common Humanity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Morris, Aldon D. 1984. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change. New York, NY: Free Press.
Motwane, Arman. 2007. Yes, You Can Change the World. India: Prakash Press.
Nietzsche, Friedrich. [1887] 2017. Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morality and Other Writings. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Norretranders, Tor. 2006. The Generous Man: How Helping Others Is the Sexiest Thing You Can Do. Da Capo Press.
Ostertag, Stephen F. 2014. "Becoming Pure: The Civil Sphere, Media Practices and Constructing Civil Purification." Cultural Sociology, 8(1): 45-62.
Ostertag, Stephen F. 2016. "Expressions of Right and Wrong: The Emergence of a Cultural Structure of Journalism." In The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered: Democratic Culture, Professional Codes, Digital Futures. J. C. Alexander, E. B. Breese, and M. Luengo (eds). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Ostertag, Stephen F. and David G. Ortiz. 2017. "Can Social Media Use Produce Enduring Social Ties? Affordances and the Case of Katrina Bloggers." Qualitative Sociology, 40: 59-82
Ostertag, Stephen F. and Lucas Diaz. 2017. "A critical strong program: Cultural power and racialized civil exclusion." American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 5: 34-67
Pinker, Steven. 2011. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Vol. 75. New York: Viking New York.
Putnam, Robert D. 2000. “Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital.” Pp. 223–34 in Culture and politics. New York, NY:Springer. (2 Votes)
Robinson, Candice C. n.d. “Black Middle-Class Interpretations of Civic Engagement: ‘It’s What You’re Supposed to Do.’” 23.
Salamon, Lester M. and Helmut K. Anheier. 1996. The Nonprofit Sector: A New Global Force. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University, Institute for Policy Studies.
Sayer, Andrew. 2009. The Moral Significance of Class. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Shostak, Arthur B. 2017. Stealth Altruism: Forbidden Care as Jewish Resistance in the Holocaust. New York: Routledge. (2 Votes)
Skocpol, Theda. [2003] 2013. Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
Smith, David Horton. 2000. Grassroots Associations. Los Angeles, LA: SAGE Publications.
Sorokin, Pitirim A. [1954] 2015. Ways & Power Of Love: Techniques Of Moral Transformation. West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Foundation Press.
Stebbins, Robert A. 1996. “Volunteering: A Serious Leisure Perspective.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 25(2): 211–24.
Stebbins, Robert A. 2017. Personal Decisions in the Public Square: Beyond Problem Solving into a Positive Sociology. New York, NY: Routledge.
Stets, Jan E. and Michael J. Carter. 2012. “A Theory of the Self for the Sociology of Morality.” American Sociological Review, 77(1): 120–40.
Svoboda, Elizabeth. 2013. What Makes a Hero?: The Surprising Science of Selflessness. New York, NY: Penguin Books.
Taylor, Charles. 1989. Sources of the Self. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Tavory, Iddo. 2011. “The Question of Moral Action: A Formalist Position.” Sociological Theory, 29(4): 272-293.
Tufekci, Zeynep. 2017. Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Vela-McConnell, James A. 1999. Who Is My Neighbor?: Social Affinity in a Modern World. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
Weber, Max. [1905] 2013. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. New York: Routledge.
Wuthnow, Robert. [1991] 2012. Acts of Compassion: Caring for Others and Helping Ourselves. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.