Mellor, P.A orcid.org/0000-0001-6954-4442 and Shilling, C (Accepted: 2022) Sociology, Embodiment and Morality: A Durkheimian Perspective. In: Hitlin, S, Dromi, SM and Luft, A, (eds.) Handbook of the Sociology of Morality, Volume 2. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research, 2 . Springer , pp. 117-127. ISBN 978-3-031-32021-7
Abstract
Durkheim is often associated with the ‘old’ sociology of morality but a fresh engagement with the embodied dimensions of his work can bring theoretical clarity to the contemporary field. In undertaking this task, our argument proceeds through three stages. Firstly, we demonstrate how Durkheim’s explanatory homo duplex model insists that biological and social factors combine to constitute morality. Secondly, we analyse how this model provides the basis for a broader explanatory account that resists reductionist ‘substantive’ assessments of diverse moral systems to focus on them as cultural systems. Finally, we explore how his approach facilitates the analysis of competing moral solidarities within as well as across contemporary societies. Having reappraised Durkheim’s account, we suggest that the sociology of morality should be inclusive of insights from other disciplines but also synthetic, resisting various forms of reductionism in favour of a distinctively sociological model reflective of the fact that human beings are, simultaneously, natural and cultural creatures.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023. This version of the chapter has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use (https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/policies/accepted-manuscript-terms), but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32022-4_7. |
Keywords: | Sociology, The body, Morality, Durkheim, Nature, Culture |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > Theology and Religious Studies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 Oct 2022 12:24 |
Last Modified: | 26 Oct 2023 09:41 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Springer |
Series Name: | Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/978-3-031-32022-4_7 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:191149 |
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