Unequal Foundations

Steven Hitlin is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Iowa. He has published numerous articles in sociological and psychological journals about morality, the self, agency, and racial identification. He is the author of Moral Selves, Evil Selves, the Social Psychology of Conscience (2008, Palgrave Macmillan) and, along with Stephen Vaisey, is the lead editor of the Handbook of The Sociology of Morality (2010, Springer).Sarah K. Harkness is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Iowa. Her work centers on the social psychology of inequality and has published articles in the areas of emotions, morality, status, and affect control theory.

• Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 A Primer on Inequality Chapter 3 The Social Scientific Study of Morality Chapter 4 The Difficulty of Studying Morality Across Cultures Chapter 5 Morality as a Measure of Society Chapter 6 The Theory of Inequality and Moral Emotions Chapter 7 Affect Control Theory: How Do Cultures Draw Moral Lines? Chapter 8 Methodology and a Description of the Data Chapter 9 Empirical Analysis Chapter 10 Conclusion

Unequal Foundations is a provocative book that suggests that income inequality induces harsher moral judgments and neg-ative moral emotions and plays a more critical role in moral judgments and emotion than the cultural syndrome of individualism collectivism.