The Science of Dignity Measuring Personhood and Well-Being in the United States

by Hitlin, Steven; Andersson, Matthew A.

• ISBN13: 9780197743867
• ISBN10: 0197743862
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780197743881
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-08-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography

Steven Hitlin is a sociological social psychologist whose work spans morality, self and identity, the life course, and social theory. Before his faculty position at Iowa, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is author or co-author for several books and academic articles including Unequal Foundations: Inequality, Morality and Emotions Across Cultures (Oxford) and Moral Selves, Evil Selves: The Social Psychology of Conscience (Palgrave Macmillan).

Matthew A. Andersson is a sociologist who studies health inequalities across the life course. His research has been published in numerous publications in leading journals in the social and population health sciences. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University and a Presidential Graduate Research Fellow at The University of Iowa. He serves on the editorial boards of Society and Mental Health and Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences.