by margaritamooney | Jun 17, 2013 | Human Flourishing, Sociology in General
This post originally appeared on the Black, White, & Gray blog. Sitting in his office perched above the hills in Berkeley, California, yesterday I got to meet one of the legends of sociology: Robert Bellah. Among other accomplishments, Bellah’s co-authored book...
by margaritamooney | Feb 6, 2013 | Gratitude, Human Flourishing
This post originally appeared on the Black, White, & Gray blog. When I first started read Gretchen Rubin’s best-selling book, The Happiness Project, I thought, “Wow, she does a great job of summarizing tons on research on positive psychology in a way that is...
by margaritamooney | Jan 28, 2013 | Human Flourishing
This post originally appeared on the Black, White, & Gray blog. With Martin Seligman Ever since I met Martin Seligman, one of the founders of positive psychology, at his home near Philadelphia last fall to discuss what movement for positive sociology might look...
by margaritamooney | Nov 15, 2012 | Human Flourishing
This post originally appeared on the Black, White, & Gray blog. According to the women Susan Crawford Sullivan interviewed for Living Faith: Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty, what do homelessness, drug addiction, jail time, unplanned pregnancy and...
by margaritamooney | Oct 24, 2012 | Human Flourishing
This post originally appeared on the Black, White, & Gray blog. Recently, while reading Andrew Sayer’s book “Why Things Matter to People: Social Science, Values and Ethical Life,” I was captivated by the question of which of these two sentences sounds like a more...
by margaritamooney | Oct 17, 2012 | Human Flourishing
This post originally appeared on the Black, White, & Gray blog. When, as a 7th grader, I wrote a speech based on Martin Seligman’s theory of learned helplessness, little did I imagine that several decades later I would be sitting at Professor Seligman’s kitchen...
