Author: Publisher: Triangle Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781931283335
Category : Christian sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Sociology, a Christian Approach for Changing the World
Author: Publisher: Triangle Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781931283335
Category : Christian sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Christian Perspectives on Sociology
Author: Stephen GrunlanPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1579106277
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
The Sacred Project of American Sociology
Author: Christian SmithPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199377138
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This text shows counter-intuitively, that the secular enterprise that everyday sociology appears to be pursuing is actually not what is really going on at sociology's deepest level. Sociology today is in fact animated by sacred impulses, driven by sacred commitments, and serves a sacred project. The book re-asserts a vision for what sociology is most important for, in contrast with its current commitments, and calls sociologists back to a more honest, fair, and healthy vision of its purpose.
To Flourish or Destruct
Author: Christian SmithPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022623200X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A study of what motivates humans and the activity that gives rise to human social life and social structures. In his 2010 book What Is a Person?, Christian Smith argued that sociology had for too long neglected this fundamental question. Prevailing social theories, he wrote, do not adequately “capture our deep subjective experience as persons, crucial dimensions of the richness of our own lived lives, what thinkers in previous ages might have called our ‘souls’ or ‘hearts.’” Building on Smith’s previous work, To Flourish or Destruct examines the motivations intrinsic to this subjective experience: Why do people do what they do? How can we explain the activity that gives rise to all human social life and social structures? Smith argues that our actions stem from a motivation to realize what he calls natural human goods: ends that are, by nature, constitutionally good for all human beings. He goes on to explore the ways we can and do fail to realize these ends—a failure that can result in varying gradations of evil. Rooted in critical realism and informed by work in philosophy, psychology, and other fields, Smith’s ambitious book situates the idea of personhood at the center of our attempts to understand how we might shape good human lives and societies. Praise for To Flourish or Destruct “This major work in sociology theory should be read by social scientists in all disciplines. Highly recommended.” —Choice “To Flourish or Destruct poses a powerful and important challenge to the entire discipline of sociology. Smith is becoming the anchor of a humanist renewal in sociology and although he is not alone in this movement, what makes To Flourish or Destruct different is a coherent, new, oppositional perspective that draws on critical realism to affirm both human personhood and the ever-present moral element in human affairs. Smith’s Personalism could become the banner around which a very different kind of sociology develops, one that respects the centered consciousness that is human personhood.” —Douglas Porpora, Drexel University “This book represents a major advance in sociology and more specifically within critical realism, which is gradually emerging as a full-fledged alternative in the social sciences. I am fundamentally convinced by this book.” —George Steinmetz, University of Michigan
Christian Sociology
Author: John Henry Wilbrandt StuckenbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
What Is a Person?
Author: Christian SmithPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226765946
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
The task of understanding human beings, what we ourselves are, our constitution and condition, is a perennial problem in philosophy and related disciplines. Smith argues here that our understanding of human persons is threatened by technological development and capricious academic theories alike, seeking to deny or relativize the personhood of humanity. Smith's book puts a stake in the ground, in defense of a view of the human that is genuinely humanistic in the traditional sense and capable of sustaining with intellectual coherence things like modern human rights and universal benevolence.
Practical Christian Sociology
Author: Wilbur Fisk CraftsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Towards a Christian Sociology
Author: Arthur Joseph PentyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A Reader in Sociology; Christian Perspectives
Author: Charles P. De SantoPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1579105831
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 737
Book Description
Author: Gerd Theissen