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 IntroductionChapter 2 A Primer on InequalityChapter 3 The Social Scientific Study of MoralityChapter 4 The Difficulty of Studying Morality Across CulturesChapter 5 Morality as a Measure of SocietyChapter 6 The Theory of Inequality and Moral EmotionsChapter 7 Affect Control Theory: How Do Cultures Draw Moral Lines?Chapter 8 Methodology and a Description of the DataChapter 9 Empirical AnalysisChapter 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.