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Sociology and Catholic Social Teaching
Contemporary Theory and Research
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2012
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Sociology and Catholic Social Teaching: Contemporary Theory and Research contains essays by key scholars in the territory where Catholic social thought and secular sociology meet, and offers a much needed alternative to the relativism and individualism that so often characterize social scientific analysis today. Contributors to this volume argue that Catholic social teaching, as articulated so powerfully today in recent papal encyclicals and major summations such as the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, offers a powerful moral framework for addressing today’s pressing social problems. This is especially true since many of its tenets find solid support in social scientific research on the nature of the person and the workings of culture and social institutions. Sponsored by the Society of Catholic Social Scientists, and including work by sociologists from both the Society and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, this volume is offered in the spirit of Pope John Paul II’s exhortation to draw from contemporary social science whatever can help the Church better understand contemporary social issues and trends and thus better serve humanity.
Specific articles address such topics as the Church as a virtual nation in the international arena; changing cultural norms regarding deviance; the historical and contemporary relationship between Catholicism and mainstream academic sociology; empirical support for a natural law perspective on family relations; the social psychology of happiness and moral behavior among emerging adults; the sociology of knowledge from a distinctively Catholic perspective; and how the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity can be used to analyze and evaluate the functioning of institutions like the family, education and the state. Each author also offers some autobiographical reflections on how they relate sociology and their life of Faith.
This anthology will interest scholars in both sociology and Catholic social thought, as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate students in these areas.
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2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-8297-3
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-8327-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
292
Product type
Edited Book
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
1. Toward a Catholic Sociological Imagination: Sociologies in the Service of Catholic Social Teaching No access
2. Imagined Communions: The Virtual Nation for Virtuous Nations No access
3. Beyond the "Dictatorship of Relativism": Toward a Sociology of Knowledge, Catholic-Style No access
4. Catholic Social Teachings and the Sociology of Deviance No access
5. How a Catholic Grounding Can Contribute to the Empirical Social Sciences No access
6. A Cohort Analysis of Happiness among Young Adults No access
7. Responding to the Challenge of Postmodernism: Potential Grounds for Future Collaboration between Sociology and Catholic Social Thought No access
8. Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI to the Participants in the 14th Session of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences No access
9. Address to the Holy Father No access
10. Pursuing the Common Good: How Solidarity and Subsidiarity Can Work Together. Conference Introduction No access
11. Discovering the Relational Character of the Common Good No access
12. Education, Subsidiarity, and Solidarity: Past, Present, and Future No access
