International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy · 1996 · 31 citations · 10 references
Moral ReasoningMoral NormsClassical SociologyMoral PhilosophySociologyAcademic SociologyMoral IssueFounding FathersNormative EthicExistential LevelCritical TheoryMetaphysics Of MoralitySocial Sciences
Surely the absence of a sociology of morality has to be one of the major weaknesses of academic sociology, and a mysterious one at that. For Durkheim, one of sociology's founding fathers, morality was to have a central place as an object of inquiry; moreover, he was passionately interested in it on the existential level, as was Weber.
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