Samuel D Stabler
Biographic Data
| ID | 277404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel D Stabler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel D |
| FAMILY NAME | Stabler |
| SIGNATURE | STABLER S D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hunter College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4289-4551 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Exploring the Moral Underpinnings of Sociological Theory
This article introduces a pedagogical exercise aimed at enhancing students’ engagement with sociological theory courses. Despite their importance, students often feel disconnected from these courses in their daily lives. This exercise, adaptable for various class sizes and formats, encourages students to explore the moral and ethical dimensions of sociological theory. It involves group work where students analyze statements reflecting diverse mor…
Normative Cumulation
Sociologists of knowledge production have long explored how scholars tackle empirical, methodological, and theoretical challenges. This article highlights a parallel process: the accumulation of moral justifications for pursuing knowledge in specific fields, which we term normative cumulation . As researchers face normative objections and dilemmas, they develop new moral justifications for their work. Researchers' interpretive work leads some jus…
Moral Minefields
Church, Space, and Pluralism
Sociologists argue that religious diversity motivates violent conflict and the embrace of religious tolerance in response. These accounts struggle to explain the histories of two coterminous Puritan ventures: Massachusetts, where religious intolerance became a legal norm, and Providence Island, a colony in the West Indies where religious infighting undercut the church-state. Drawing settlers from the same religious circles, both faced conflicts a…
Good on paper
Intensive Parenting
Using 30 years of longitudinal data from a nationally representative cohort of women, we study the association between breastfeeding duration and completed fertility, fertility expectations, and birth spacing. We find that women who breastfeed their first child for five months or longer are a distinct group. They have more children overall and higher odds of having three or more children rather than two, compared with women who breastfeed for sho…
Good on paper
Intensive Parenting
Using 30 years of longitudinal data from a nationally representative cohort of women, we study the association between breastfeeding duration and completed fertility, fertility expectations, and birth spacing. We find that women who breastfeed their first child for five months or longer are a distinct group. They have more children overall and higher odds of having three or more children rather than two, compared with women who breastfeed for sho…
Church, Space, and Pluralism
Sociologists argue that religious diversity motivates violent conflict and the embrace of religious tolerance in response. These accounts struggle to explain the histories of two coterminous Puritan ventures: Massachusetts, where religious intolerance became a legal norm, and Providence Island, a colony in the West Indies where religious infighting undercut the church-state. Drawing settlers from the same religious circles, both faced conflicts a…
Intensive Parenting
Using 30 years of longitudinal data from a nationally representative cohort of women, we study the association between breastfeeding duration and completed fertility, fertility expectations, and birth spacing. We find that women who breastfeed their first child for five months or longer are a distinct group. They have more children overall and higher odds of having three or more children rather than two, compared with women who breastfeed for sho…
Church, Space, and Pluralism
Sociologists argue that religious diversity motivates violent conflict and the embrace of religious tolerance in response. These accounts struggle to explain the histories of two coterminous Puritan ventures: Massachusetts, where religious intolerance became a legal norm, and Providence Island, a colony in the West Indies where religious infighting undercut the church-state. Drawing settlers from the same religious circles, both faced conflicts a…
Good on paper
Moral Minefields
Exploring the Moral Underpinnings of Sociological Theory
This article introduces a pedagogical exercise aimed at enhancing students’ engagement with sociological theory courses. Despite their importance, students often feel disconnected from these courses in their daily lives. This exercise, adaptable for various class sizes and formats, encourages students to explore the moral and ethical dimensions of sociological theory. It involves group work where students analyze statements reflecting diverse mor…
Normative Cumulation
Sociologists of knowledge production have long explored how scholars tackle empirical, methodological, and theoretical challenges. This article highlights a parallel process: the accumulation of moral justifications for pursuing knowledge in specific fields, which we term normative cumulation . As researchers face normative objections and dilemmas, they develop new moral justifications for their work. Researchers' interpretive work leads some jus…
Epistemology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (2 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 works)