@article{ref1,
title="The question of moral action: a formalist position",
journal="Sociological theory",
year="2011",
author="Tavory, Iddo",
volume="29",
number="4",
pages="272-293",
abstract="This article develops a research position that allows cultural sociologists to compare morality across sociohistorical cases. In order to do so, the article suggests focusing analytic attention on actions that fulfill the following criteria: (a) actions that define the actor as a certain kind of socially recognized person, both within and across fields; (b) actions that actors experience--or that they expect others to perceive--as defining the actor both intersituationally and to a greater extent than other available definitions of self; and (c) actions to which actors either have themselves, or expect others to have, a predictable emotional reaction. Such a position avoids both a realist moral sociology and descriptive-relativism, and provides sociologists with criteria for comparing moral action in different cases while staying attuned to social and historical specificity.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0735-2751",
doi="10.1111/j.1467-9558.2011.01400.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9558.2011.01400.x"
}