William M Sullivan
Biographic Data
| ID | 110026 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William M Sullivan |
| GIVEN NAMES | William M |
| FAMILY NAME | Sullivan |
| SIGNATURE | SULLIVAN W M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 240 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Challenging Modernity
"For the sociologist Robert Bellah, questions about the meaning and responsibility of human beings in the present emerge out of our self-awareness of our responsibilities to one another and the planet. He places religion as the central social institution through which this is understood. At the time of his passing in 2013, Bellah had begun formulating what would have been his next book, a narrative that demonstrated how the axial age (500 - 300 B…
Challenging Modernity
Challenging Modernity
Religion and Inequality
The growth of economic inequality poses severe challenges, not only to the stability of global economic and political systems, but also to the health and viability of the social fabric of contemporary societies. Inequality is therefore a moral and spiritual as well as a technical economic problem. This chapter asks what resources the great world religions—Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Confucianism—can bring to the crises occasioned …
The Axial Invention of Education and Today’s Global Knowledge Culture
The Axial Invention of Education and Today’s Global Knowledge Culture
Interdependence in American Society and Commitment to the Common Good
Starting with a discussion of the religious dimension of national purpose in America, this article examines the concept of American civil religion and the emergence of individualism as a fundamental aspect of American identity. It then examines recent history, looking at two social revolutions that America has gone through in recent decades—Woodstock and Wall Street. Following these revolutions, Americans are now more individually confident yet d…
Globalization of Ethics
The Globalization of Ethics
Sullivan and Kymlicka seek to provide an alternative to post-9/11 pessimism about the ability of serious ethical dialogue to resolve disagreements and conflict across national, religious, and cultural differences. It begins by acknowledging the gravity of the problem: on our tightly interconnected planet, entire populations look for moral guidance to a variety of religious and cultural traditions, and these often stiffen, rather than soften, oppo…
Habits of the heart
Examines how individualism and civic responsibility contribute to and detract from America's common good. In the Preface to this edition, the authors relate the arguments of the book both to the current realities of American society and the growing debate about the country's future.
Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam
Reaffirming the civilizing and historical role of the Islamic Ummah which God made the best nation that has given mankind a universal and well-balanced civilization in which harmony is established between this life and the hereafter and knowledge is combined with faith; and the role that this Ummah should play to guide a humanity confused by competing trends and ideologies and to provide solutions to the chronic problems of this materialistic civ…
Democracy in America Today
Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, Steven M. Tipton; Democracy in America Today: Preface to the 2007 Edition of Habits of
Markets vs. professions
sions is under siege. Not just their performance but also their claim to distinct expertise, the very core of professional legitimacy, has come under withering 1⁄2re. Skepticism is particularly leveled at professional claims that the public interest is being served. Lawyers now routinely expect denigration for their professional af1⁄2liation, even from other attorneys. Physicians are not only challenged by the proponents of ‘alternative medicine,…
Meaning and Modernity
What Is Left of Professionalism after Managed Care
Modern American medicine has wedded scientific advance to a small business model of the individual practitioner, defining professionalism as technical understanding. If the profession is to survive, it must draw on older ideals of the learned professions as acting on behalf of the community, and reinvigorate a civic understanding of professional life
What Is Left of Professionalism after Managed Care
Modern American medicine has wedded scientific advance to a small\nbusiness model of the individual practitioner, defining professionalism as\ntechnical understanding. If the profession is to survive, it must draw on\nolder ideals of the learned professions as acting on behalf of the community,\nand reinvigorate a ovic understanding of professional life
John Courtney Murray and the American Civil Conversation
Journal Article John Courtney Murray and the American Civil Conversation. Ed. by Robert P. Hunt and Kenneth L. Grasso. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992. x, 298 pp. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-80280538-8.) Get access William M. Sullivan William M. Sullivan La Salle University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1149–1150, h…
Paradise Lost
The Rhetoric of Thick Consensus
Why Exhortation is Not a Strategy
The Good Society
Journal Article The Good Society. By Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton. (New York: Knopf, 1991. viii + 347 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-679-40098-2.) Get access David B. Danbom David B. Danbom North Dakota State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Pages 1259–1260, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080…
The Honey and the Hemlock
Chronology1The Great Paradoxical Society: Ancient Athens12Democracy and the Paranoid Position133The Founding Miracle: Crisis and Possibility374The Founding Miracle: Compromise, Reconciliation, and Continuing Strife575The Spirit of Society: Citizenship, Freedom, and Responsibility756The Health of the Democratic Polis957Moderate Antidemocratic Movements and Oligarchic Death Squads: The Coups of 411 and 4041178Antidemocratic Thought, the Beginnings …
Restraint and Responsibility
Habits of the heart
Reconstructing Public Philosophy
Habits of the heart
Examines how individualism and civic responsibility contribute to and detract from America's common good. In the Preface to this edition, the authors relate the arguments of the book both to the current realities of American society and the growing debate about the country's future.
Interpretive social science
Reconstructing Public Philosophy
Interpretive Social Science
The Honey and the Hemlock
Chronology1The Great Paradoxical Society: Ancient Athens12Democracy and the Paranoid Position133The Founding Miracle: Crisis and Possibility374The Founding Miracle: Compromise, Reconciliation, and Continuing Strife575The Spirit of Society: Citizenship, Freedom, and Responsibility756The Health of the Democratic Polis957Moderate Antidemocratic Movements and Oligarchic Death Squads: The Coups of 411 and 4041178Antidemocratic Thought, the Beginnings …
Markets vs. professions
sions is under siege. Not just their performance but also their claim to distinct expertise, the very core of professional legitimacy, has come under withering 1⁄2re. Skepticism is particularly leveled at professional claims that the public interest is being served. Lawyers now routinely expect denigration for their professional af1⁄2liation, even from other attorneys. Physicians are not only challenged by the proponents of ‘alternative medicine,…
I Gotta Be Me
Individualism and the Tensions in American Culture
Democratic culture or authoritarian capitalism
Shifting Loyalties
Students of society are increasingly relating the legitimacy crisis facing industrial nations to the erosion of moral traditions. Habermas sees the problem as a historical crisis and calls for the reconstruction of our understanding of moral authority on the basis of practical reason, on which justice and truth rest. The key to our understanding of growth problems is to be found in our cultural situation rather than in the formalistic functional …
The Harassed Exile
General Cipriano Castro came to power in Venezuela in 1899. During his nine year regime he destroyed all internal political opposition, imposed a tight, one-party dictatorship, and undermined the national economy by creating federal monopolies, implementing arbitrary trade policies, and antagonizing foreign nations. His relations with outside powers were poor in particular. Not only did General Castro’s refusal—or inability—to pay international d…
Interpretive social science
Interpretive Social Science
Shifting Loyalties
Students of society are increasingly relating the legitimacy crisis facing industrial nations to the erosion of moral traditions. Habermas sees the problem as a historical crisis and calls for the reconstruction of our understanding of moral authority on the basis of practical reason, on which justice and truth rest. The key to our understanding of growth problems is to be found in our cultural situation rather than in the formalistic functional …
Interpretive Social Science
Democratic culture or authoritarian capitalism
Social Science As Moral Inquiry
Reconstructing Public Philosophy
Reconstructing Public Philosophy
I Gotta Be Me
Response to Reviewers Habits of the Heart
Individualism and the Tensions in American Culture
Reconstructing Public Philosophy
Petroleum in Venezuela
Habits of the heart
Reconstructing Public Philosophy
Restraint and Responsibility
Paradise Lost
The Rhetoric of Thick Consensus
Why Exhortation is Not a Strategy
The Good Society
Journal Article The Good Society. By Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton. (New York: Knopf, 1991. viii + 347 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-679-40098-2.) Get access David B. Danbom David B. Danbom North Dakota State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Pages 1259–1260, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080…
The Honey and the Hemlock
Chronology1The Great Paradoxical Society: Ancient Athens12Democracy and the Paranoid Position133The Founding Miracle: Crisis and Possibility374The Founding Miracle: Compromise, Reconciliation, and Continuing Strife575The Spirit of Society: Citizenship, Freedom, and Responsibility756The Health of the Democratic Polis957Moderate Antidemocratic Movements and Oligarchic Death Squads: The Coups of 411 and 4041178Antidemocratic Thought, the Beginnings …
John Courtney Murray and the American Civil Conversation
Journal Article John Courtney Murray and the American Civil Conversation. Ed. by Robert P. Hunt and Kenneth L. Grasso. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992. x, 298 pp. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-80280538-8.) Get access William M. Sullivan William M. Sullivan La Salle University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1149–1150, h…
What Is Left of Professionalism after Managed Care
Modern American medicine has wedded scientific advance to a small business model of the individual practitioner, defining professionalism as technical understanding. If the profession is to survive, it must draw on older ideals of the learned professions as acting on behalf of the community, and reinvigorate a civic understanding of professional life
What Is Left of Professionalism after Managed Care
Modern American medicine has wedded scientific advance to a small\nbusiness model of the individual practitioner, defining professionalism as\ntechnical understanding. If the profession is to survive, it must draw on\nolder ideals of the learned professions as acting on behalf of the community,\nand reinvigorate a ovic understanding of professional life
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