Few academic disciplines are as contentious as sociology. Sociologists routinely turn on
their peers with fierce criticisms not only of their empirical rigor and theoretical clarity but of
their character as well. Yet despite the controversy, scholars manage to engage in thorny
debates without being censured. How?In Moral Minefields, Shai M. Dromi and Samuel D.
Stabler consider five recent controversial topics in sociology—race and genetics,
secularization theory, methodological nationalism, the culture of poverty, and parenting …

When we die, if good people go to the Good Place and bad people go to the Bad Place, why
don't medium people go to a medium place, like Cincinnati? Shai M. Dromi and Samuel D.
Stabler charismatically open their book using the conceptual arc of the television show The
Good Place to demonstrate how people work through moral repertoires—a collective set of
grammars used to define what constitutes the common good—to parse through measures of
worthiness of different types of production and work. Moral Minefields looks at seminal …