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Constructing an Atheist Identity
I recently read Jesse M. Smith’s “Becoming an Atheist in America: Constructing Identity and Meaning from the Rejection of Theism” which you can read in the journal Sociology of Religion if you have...
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Theorizing the Atheist-Skeptic Movements
It’s not obvious why the atheist-skeptic movements emerged. We know a little bit more about how they emerged, but even then, how they came to alter the intellectual and public landscapes remains an...
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The New Cynics and Pseudoscience
Would anyone dispute that there has been scientific change? It’s difficult to imagine science not changing, as change is one of its greatest strengths, and so, it is odd that this change, this apparent...
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Sociology of Religion’s Hall Monitor
There may conceivably be a reason to believe that American sociology is ignorant and dogmatic about religion. Christian Smith of the University of Notre Dame exchanges reason for the plaintive sound of...
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Rejecting the Skeptic Identity
Do you identify yourself as a skeptic? Sarah Moglia, event specialist for the SSA and blogger at RantaSarah Rex prefers to describe herself as an atheist rather than a skeptic. Her explanation for why...
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Quote of the Day: Explaining Society
From Explaining Society: Critical Realism in the Social Sciences, written by Berth Danermark: As the social sciences deal with open systems, causal conditions in particular must be analysed as...
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Victim blaming or risk reduction?
I’ve encountered the concept of victim blaming in health literature, particularly from a sociological perspective. Some scholars think that health-promotion can be a form of victim blaming or at the...
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Privilege: A tired old argument?
You should go read Jeremy Stangroom’s post, The Antinomies of Privilege, over at Talking Philosophy. Stangroom wrote his article way back in 2011, but it’s worth revisiting. Some people in the secular...
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