Editing Altruism (section)

===Sociology===
{{See also|Public sociology}}
"Sociologists have long been concerned with how to build the good society".<ref name="ASA-AMSS">{{Cite web|url=http://www.asanet.org/sections/altruism.cfm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503051933/http://asanet.org/sections/altruism.cfm|url-status=dead|publisher=American Sociological Association|title=Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity|archive-date=3 May 2012}}</ref> The structure of our societies and how individuals come to exhibit charitable, philanthropic, and other pro-social, altruistic actions for the [[common good]] is a commonly researched topic within the field. The American Sociology Association (ASA) acknowledges [[public sociology]] saying, "The intrinsic scientific, policy, and public relevance of this field of investigation in helping to construct 'good societies' is unquestionable".<ref name="ASA-AMSS" /> This type of sociology seeks contributions that aid popular and theoretical understandings of what motivates altruism and how it is organized, and promotes an altruistic focus in order to benefit the world and people it studies.

How altruism is framed, organized, carried out, and what motivates it at the group level is an area of focus that sociologists investigate in order to contribute back to the groups it studies and "build the good society". The motivation of altruism is also the focus of study; for example, one study links the occurrence of moral outrage to altruistic compensation of victims.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Thulin|first1=E.W.|author-link2=Cristina Bicchieri|last2=Bicchieri|first2=C.|title=I'm so angry I could help you: Moral outrage as a driver of victim compensation|journal=Social Philosophy & Policy|year=2016|volume=32|issue=2 |pages=146–160|doi=10.1017/S0265052516000145 |s2cid=148548711 }}</ref> Studies show that [[generosity]] in laboratory and in online experiments is contagious – people imitate the generosity they observe in others.<ref>{{multiref2
|1={{cite book |last1=Tsvetkova |first1=Milena |last2=Macy |first2=Michael |chapter=The Contagion of Prosocial Behavior and the Emergence of Voluntary-Contribution Communities |title=Social Phenomena: From Data Analysis to Models |date=2015 |pages=117–134 |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-14011-7_7 |isbn=978-3-319-14010-0 |publisher=Springer International Publishing}}
|2={{cite journal |last1=Tagiew |first1=Rustam |last2=Ignatov |first2=Dmitry |title=Gift Ratios in Laboratory Experiments |journal=CEUR Workshop Proceedings |date=2016 |volume=1627 |pages=82–93 |url=http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1627/paper7.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1627/paper7.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2022 |url-status=live}}
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