Sociology of Morals

Books:

Moral Relativism. New York, Picador, 2008 and London, Profile Books, 2009

THE DIVERSITY OF MORALS Princeton University Press 2025

ARTICLES

‘Comparing Many Moralities: The Anthropologist and the Philosopher’ (review of Webb Keane, Ethical Life and Owen Flanagan, The Geography of Morals) European Journal of Sociology 59 (3) 2018: 452-9

‘The Morals of the Manifesto’ in Jeffrey C. Isaac (ed.), The Communist Manifesto. Yale University Press. pp. 119-143 (2012)

‘The Social Construction of Morality’ in Steven Hitlin and Stephen Vaisey (eds.), HANDBOOK OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF MORALITY, New York and Dordrecht: Springer, 2010

‘Pathologies of States and Markets’ in D. Downes, P. Rock, C. Chinkin and C. Gearty (eds.), Crime, Social Control and Human Rights: from Moral Panics to States of Denial. Essays in Honour of Stanley Cohen. London, Wilan, 2007, pp. 157-173

‘Invasions of the Market’ in M. Miller (ed.), Worlds of Capitalism: Institutions, Governance and Economic Change in the Era of Globalization, London: Routledge, 2005

‘Moral Diversity and Relativism’, Journal of Philosophy of Education, 29, 2, 1995

“Taking Morality Seriously” in Ted Honderich (ed.) Morality and Objectivity (1985, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul)

“Moral Weakness”, Philosophical Quarterly, 1965, pp. 104-114. Reprinted in Mortimore, G. (ed.): Weakness of the Will (1971), Macmillan, London)

Steven Lukes