Social Science Research Council
Philip S. Gorski is Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies and Co-Director of the Center for Comparative Research at Yale University. He is a comparative-historical sociologist with strong interests in religion, social theory, historical methods and the philosophy of social science. The primary focus of his work is religion and politics in Western Europe and North America in the early modern and modern periods. Recent publications include The Disciplinary Revolution. Calvinism and the Growth of State Power in Early Modern Europe (Chicago, 2003); Max Weber’s Economy and Society: A Critical Companion (Stanford, 2004); and “The Poverty of Deductivism: A Constructive Realist Model of Sociological Explanation”, Sociological Methodology 2004. Current projects include edited volumes on “Bordieusian Theory and Historical Analysis” and a monograph entitled “Religious America, Secular Europe?”, which explores the causes and significance of the unchurching of Europe and the churching of America during the fin-de-siècle.
Over the past few days, Barack Obama’s “More Perfect Union” speech has been accessed millions of times on YouTube and dissected in dozens of articles. Understandably, most of the analyses have focused on race. That, after all, was its central theme. Or was it? [...]
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