Social shepherding and moral nets as found in some novels by Fyodor Dostoevsky, James A. Michener, George Orwell, B. F. Skinner, and C. S. Forester
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This article uses selected passages from the Old and New Testaments to
illustrate the common presence of good shepherd and moral net themes in
some of the novels by Fyodor Dostoevsky, James A. Michener, George
Orwell, B.F. Skinner, and C.S. Forester. Traditional sociology texts and
classroom lectures rightly address such topics as normal parts of social life,
but usually objectively; novelists do the same, yet with much more passion.
While no "a-ha" moments, statistical data, or tests of hypotheses are offered
here, students of sociology are encouraged to follow Ogburn's advice to go
outside traditional boundaries and sources of knowledge to find sociology and have fun doing so, because the stable templates of social organization are there to be found and made available to others.
illustrate the common presence of good shepherd and moral net themes in
some of the novels by Fyodor Dostoevsky, James A. Michener, George
Orwell, B.F. Skinner, and C.S. Forester. Traditional sociology texts and
classroom lectures rightly address such topics as normal parts of social life,
but usually objectively; novelists do the same, yet with much more passion.
While no "a-ha" moments, statistical data, or tests of hypotheses are offered
here, students of sociology are encouraged to follow Ogburn's advice to go
outside traditional boundaries and sources of knowledge to find sociology and have fun doing so, because the stable templates of social organization are there to be found and made available to others.
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