#1308 Stephen Vaisey: The Sociology of Morality and Political Beliefs

Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricard Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Stephen Vese. He is professor of sociology and political science at Duke University. And today we're going to talk about the sociology of morality, cultural change, people's political beliefs, and some other related topics.

So Dr. Vese, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one. Hey, thanks. It's a pleasure to be here.

Okay, so look, it's interesting because I've already talked on the show about the psychology of morality, about moral philosophy, I mean, about many different takes on morality, but this is the first time on the show that I'm going to ask someone about a sociological perspective on morality. So uh tell us first, what is the sociology of morality and In what ways does it differ from other approaches to morality? Yeah, I think it's um, I might disappoint you here because I think it's a little more coterminous with the uh with with uh with moral psychology and sort of classic cultural psychology than um than I mean I the world is the world is the world and we have different disciplines and I think we're all sort of approaching things in different ways, but the phenomena is what it is. I think if there's

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