Intersections of Science and Faith
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3-27-2025
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Stets, Jan E., "Morality in Social Life: Where Is It?" (2025). Intersections of Science and Faith. 4.
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Jan E. Stets is a sociological social psychologist. She is director of the Social Psychology Research Laboratory at the University of California, Riverside. She is past director of the sociology program at the National Science Foundation and past editor of the ASA journal Social PsychologyQuarterly.
Stets is a micro-theorist who uses identity theory to understand individuals’ self-views, emotions, and moral sensibilities within and across situations. Her research primarily employs experimental and survey designs, and her analytic approach is quantitative.
She is the author of nine books and 90 articles and book chapters. Recent books include Identities in Everyday Life (with Richard T. Serpe, Oxford University Press, 2019); New Directions in Identity Theory and Research (with Richard T. Serpe, Oxford University Press, 2016), Handbook of theSociology of Emotions, Volume II(with Jonathan H. Turner, Springer Press, 2014), and Identity Theory (with Peter J. Burke, Oxford University Press, 2009). The Sociology of Emotions (with Jonathan H. Turner, Cambridge University Press, 2005) has been translated into Japanese, Croatian, Polish, and Chinese. Her book, Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions (with Jonathan H. Turner, Springer Press, 2006), received the 2008 Outstanding Recent Contribution Award from the ASA Section on Emotions. In 2010, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the ASA Emotions Section. In 2015, she received the Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Perspectives Award from the Pacific Sociological Association for her article “Self-Esteem and Identities (with Peter J. Burke).
She is the recipient of NSF grants, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, and a member of the Sociological Research Association. She is past chair of the ASA Section on Social Psychology, the ASA Section on Emotions, and the ASA Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity.