Sociology and Catholic social teaching : contemporary theory and research / edited by Stephen R. Sharkey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Toward a Catholic sociological imagination : sociologies in the service of Catholic social teaching / Stephen R. Sharkey -- Imagined communions : the virtual nation for virtuous nations / D. Paul Sullins -- Beyond the "dictatorship of relativism" : toward a sociology of knowledge, Catholic-style / Joseph A. Varacalli -- Catholic social teachings and the sociology of deviance / Anne Hendershott -- How a Catholic grounding can contribute to the empirical social sciences / Patrick Fagan -- A cohort analysis of happiness among young adults / G. Alexander Ross and Michael C. Wagner -- Responding to the challenge of postmodernism : potential grounds for future collaboration between sociology and Catholic social thought / Stephen R. Sharkey -- Address of his Holiness Benedict XVI to the participants in the 14th session of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences / Pope Benedict XVI -- Address to the Holy Father / Margaret S. Archer -- Pursuing the common good : how solidarity and subsidiarity can work together. Conference introduction / Margaret S. Archer and Pierpaolo Donati -- Discovering the relational character of the common good / Pierpaolo Donati -- Education, subsidiarity, and solidarity : past, present, and future / Margaret S. Archer -- About the authors : personal and professional reflections on doing sociology to serve the church.