Society of Catholic Social Scientists

Society of Catholic Social Scientists
AbbreviationSCSS
Formation1992; 32 years ago (1992)
Founders
  • Stephen M. Krason
  • Joseph Varacalli
Founded atPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
TypeLearned society
Legal status501(c)(3) organization
Region
United States
FieldSocial science
President
Stephen M. Krason
Publication
The Catholic Social Science Review
Websitecatholicsocialscientists.org Edit this at Wikidata

The Society of Catholic Social Scientists (SCSS) is a US-based non-profit organization founded in 1992 by Stephen M. Krason of Franciscan University of Steubenville at the Pittsburgh Hilton hotel and recognized as a non-profit by the US Internal Revenue Service in 1999.[1][2] The SCSS offers a Master of Theology degree program in Catholic social thought at Steubenville, Ohio,[3] as well as holding an annual meeting and conference,[4][5] and publishing an academic journal, The Catholic Social Science Review.[6]

The organization's mission is to "bring rigorous, credible scholarship to political, social and economic questions" through a collegiality of Catholic scholars, professors, researchers, practitioners, and writers who "approach their work in both a scholarly and evangelical spirit."[7] The organization publishes The Catholic Social Science Review, an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal of original articles and reviews in the social sciences and the humanities.

They are expected to strictly observe the highest scholarly and professional requirements of their disciplines as they examine their data in light of church teaching and the natural law. In this way, the society seeks to obtain objective knowledge about the social order, provide solutions to vexing social problems, and further the cause of Christ.

References

  1. ^ "SOCIETY OF CATHOLIC SOCIAL SCIENTIST INC - GuideStar Profile". www.guidestar.org. Retrieved 2017-06-27.
  2. ^ Varacalli, Joseph A. (1996). "Society Of Catholic Social Scientists: Catholic Social Science And The Reconstruction Of The Social Order, The". Faith & Reason. Front Royal, VA: Christendom Press. pp. 3–14. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  3. ^ "Society of Catholic Social Scientists". Graduate Theological Foundation. 2017. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  4. ^ Wilson, Adam (10 August 2012). "20th Anniversary Society of Catholic Social Scientists Conference Announced". The Cardinal Newman Society. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  5. ^ "Catholic Social Scientists to Meet October 27–28 at Franciscan University". Franciscan University of Steubenville. 2017. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  6. ^ "25th Annual Society of Catholic Social Scientists National Meeting and Conference". Eventbrite. 2017. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  7. ^ "index.asp". www.catholicsocialscientists.org. Archived from the original on 2009-02-01. Retrieved 2017-06-27.