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Cited by 58Modernity and Self-IdentityZygmunt Bauman's SociologyContemporary Sociological Theory and Practice

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Morality as a Cultural System: On Solidarity Civil and Uncivil

Alexander, Jeffrey C.·2014·The Palgrave Handbook of Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity
DOI 10.1057/9781137391865_13
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Abstract

Solidarity is a central dimension of social order and social conflict, yet it has largely been absent from influential theories of modern society. Most of the big thinkers, classical, modern, and contemporary, have conceived prototypically modern relationships as either vertical or atomized. Modernization is thought to have smashed affectual and moral fellow-feeling: because of commodification and capitalist hierarchy (Marx 1978; 2004), because of bureaucracy and individualistic asceticism (Weber 1947; 2002), because of the growing abstraction and impersonality of the collective consciousness that allows egoism and anomie (Durkheim 1984; 2002). Postmodernity is typically seen as liquefying social ties and intensifying narcissistic individualism (Bauman 2000); or as creating new forms of verticality, for example, the disciplinary cage (Foucault 1977). These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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  1. Anderson, Elijah. 2003. A Place on the Corner: A Study of Black Street Corner Men. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
  2. Bauman, Zygmunt. 2000. Liquid Modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  3. Parsons, Talcott. 1970. The Social System. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd.

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Authors
Alexander, J. C.
Corresponding author
Alexander, Jeffrey C.
ORCID
Alexander, Jeffrey C.
Venue
The Palgrave Handbook of Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Published
2014
Pages
303-310
DOI
10.1057/9781137391865_13
OpenAlex
W2479189347
Cited by
58
References
41
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 2
FWCI
17.45
Type
book chapter
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (unspecified)
Locations
Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Modernity and Self-Identity
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Zygmunt Bauman's Sociology
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
Keywords
solidarity, civil solidarity, social order, social conflict, modernization, commodification, individualism, postmodernity, narcissism, verticality, atomization, collective consciousness, anomie

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