Contemporary Theory and Research Sharkey, Stephen R. creator text Electronic books. xx Lanham Scarecrow Press 2012 monographic eng

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1 online resource (311 p.) Sociology and Catholic Social Teaching: Contemporary Theory and Research offers critical insights into a badly needed alternative vision to the alienation and cynicism that plague our political discourse. Arguing that Catholic social teaching stands as an important morally grounded framework for addressing today's pressing social problems, contributors explore the general principles and specific criteria required for both evaluating and advocating models of social improvement. This anthology is meant for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of sociology or Catholic social thought, as w. Sociology And Catholic Social Teaching; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One. Contributions from the Society of Catholic Social Scientists; 1. Toward a Catholic Sociological Imagination: Sociologies in the Service of Catholic Social Teaching; 2. Imagined Communions: The Virtual Nation for Virtuous Nations; 3. Beyond the ""Dictatorship of Relativism"": Toward a Sociology of Knowledge, Catholic-Style; 4. Catholic Social Teachings and the Sociology of Deviance; 5. How a Catholic Grounding Can Contribute to the Empirical Social Sciences 6. A Cohort Analysis of Happiness among Young Adults7. Responding to the Challenge of Postmodernism: Potential Grounds for Future Collaboration between Sociology and Catholic Social Thought; Part Two. Contributions from the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Selections from the Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Academy entitled ""Pursuing the Common Good: How Solidarity and Subsidiarity Can Work Together,"" Rome, 2008.; 8. Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI to the Participants in the 14th Session of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences; 9. Address to the Holy Father 10. Pursuing the Common Good: How Solidarity and Subsidiarity Can Work Together. Conference Introduction11. Discovering the Relational Character of the Common Good; 12. Education, Subsidiarity, and Solidarity: Past, Present, and Future; Part Three. About the Authors: Personal and Professional Reflections on Doing Sociology to Serve the Church; 13. Margaret S. Archer; 14. Pierpaolo Donati; 15. Patrick Fagan; 16. Anne Hendershott; 17. G. Alexander Ross; 18. Stephen R. Sharkey; 19. D. Paul Sullins; 20. Joseph A. Varacalli; Index Description based upon print version of record. Christian sociology -- Catholic church Church and social problems -- Catholic church Religion RELIGION / Christian Life / Social Issues RELIGION / Christianity / General Christian sociology Catholic Church Church and social problems Catholic Church BX1753 .S636 2012 261.8088282 Sharkey, Stephen R. Lanham : Scarecrow Press,c2012 9780810883277 0810883279 http://public.eblib.com/choice/PublicFullRecord.aspx?p=1791715 http://alltitles.ebrary.com/Doc?id=10938195 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=852150 http://public.eblib.com/choice/PublicFullRecord.aspx?p=1791715 http://alltitles.ebrary.com/Doc?id=10938195 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=852150 EBLCP 140927 20200709060227.0 ocn891447838 eng