Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
Part 1 Contributions from the Society of Catholic Social Scientists 1
1 Toward a Catholic Sociological Imagination: Sociologies in the Service of Catholic Social Teaching Stephen R. Sharkey 3
2 Imagined Communions: The Virtual Nation for Virtuous Nations D. Paul Sullins 41
3 Beyond the "Dictatorship of Relativism": Toward a Sociology of Knowledge, Catholic-Style Joseph A. Varacalli 59
4 Catholic Social Teachings and the Sociology of Deviance Anne Hendershott 91
5 How a Catholic Grounding Can Contribute to the Empirical Social Sciences Patrick Fagan 117
6 A Cohort Analysis of Happiness among Young Adults G. Alexander Ross Michael C. Wagner 129
7 Responding to the Challenge of Postmodernism: Potential Grounds for Future Collaboration between Sociology and Catholic Social Thought Stephen R. Sharkey 145
Part 2 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. 181
8 Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI to the Participants in the 14th Session of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences Pope Benedict XVI 183
9 Address to the Holy Father Margaret S. Archer 185
10 Pursuing the Common Good: How Solidarity and Subsidiarity Can Work Together. Conference Introduction Margaret S. Archer Pierpaolo Donati 187
11 Discovering the Relational Character of the Common Good Pierpaolo Donati 193
12 Education, Subsidiarity, and Solidarity: Past, Present, and Future Margaret S. Archer 217
Part 3 About the Authors: Personal and Professional Reflections on Doing Sociology to Serve the Church 251
13 Margaret S. Archer 253
14 Pierpaolo Donati 257
15 Patrick Fagan 261
16 Anne Hendershott 265
17 G. Alexander Ross 269
18 Stephen R. Sharkey 273
19 D. Paul Sullins 277
20 Joseph A. Varacalli 281
Index 283