by margaritamooney | Feb 6, 2015 | Happiness, Higher Education, Human Flourishing
On September 16, 2014, I published this article in Public Discourse. College students, like everyone else, want to be happy. Educators should help them ground this desire for happiness in acts of virtue. Students at a one-week seminar on happiness I co-taught recently...
by margaritamooney | Feb 6, 2015 | Catholic Social Teaching, Human Flourishing
On May 8, 2014, I published this article in Public Discourse: “Balancing career and family should not be framed as a women’s issue. All people—male or female, married or single—must draw boundaries between their work and their personal life, for their own good...
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...
