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Book SynopsisThe book offers a critique of the assumption that empiricism is the only foundation for research. Integralism provides a balanced approach to reaching moral values that can be shared by all cultures through the inclusion of empiricism, the rational and the supersensory/super-rational forms of reality into research and theory.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Major Themes of Integralism and their Influence on the Thought of the Contributors Including Summaries of Their Articles, Colbert Rhodes 2. The Promise of Integralism, Colbert Rhodes 3. Integralism, Altruism, and Social Emancipation: A Sorokian model of Prosocial Behavior and Social Organization, Barry V. Johnston 4. Integralism and Positive Psychology: A Comparison of Sorokin and Seligman, Lawrence T. Nichols 5. Foundational Ideas for an Integral Social Science in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, Vincent Jeffries 6. The Restoration of Political Science, Ryan J. Barilleaux 7. Toward an Integral Social Science: A History of Science Approach, Barry V. Johnston 8. Sin and Sociology: The Loss and Potential Recovery of a Concept, Barry V. Johnston 9. Integralism and the Sociology of Deviance: Toward a New Paradigm, Lawrence T. Nichols 10. Integralism and Benevolent Love as Virtue: Directions for Family Studies, Vincent Jeffries 11. The Nature of Integralism as a Scientific System of Thought, Vincent Jeffries 12. Beyond Mill's Sociological Imagination: Using a Pedagogy Based on Sorokin's Integralism to Reach Today's Introductory Sociology Students, Stephen R. Sharkey 13. Religious Ethics and the Scientific Study of Morality, Vincent Jeffries Bibliography About the Contributors
