Society and Reality

Below is a quote from “Transcendence: Critical Realism and God” by Margaret Archer, Andrew Collier, and Douglas Porpora. Archer is a sociologist I believe she is also a Catholic. Collier is a philosopher. Porpora is a sociologist. From the preface:
We are all critical realists by philosophical position. Margaret Archer has a greater involvement with the […]

The October issue of Scientific American has an article titled Peacekeepers of the IMMUNE SYSTEM. This article describes the function of T Cells and T Reg Cells. T Cells are those killer cells that smite pathogens in the body. The T Reg Cells are a counter balancing cell that prevents the T Cells from attacking […]

I would like to make a distinction between two types of individualism, because I think it is useful when talking about change in societies.
The first is conditioned individualism. What I have in mind is a person that is assertive, whether at other’s expense or not, and stresses self-reliance, but the source of the assertiveness […]

So the struggle over the symbol “marriage” is also the struggle over identity and value. The Church does not want its symbols diluted or to be forced to grant the sacrament to gays and the gays want to co-opt the symbol and broaden its meaning so they can march under the same standard.