I commit sociology, and I don't intend to stop

By Michael Adams. I’ve been committing sociology since my early youth. My parents and even my parish priest failed to detect early signs of trouble, even though I read the daily newspaper voraciously (a common warning signal among teenagers in the 1960s).
Father Breen may have sensed the growing danger of my curiosity about society. In reply to one of my many questions about how the world was unfolding, he fired back: “Do you think God is stupid?” But even this rhetorical rebuke was not sufficient to curb my interest in what made people think what they thought and do what they did. Read more...