For helpful analyses of the naturalistic approach to morality that personalism embraces and the differences between that and the approach to morality reflected in “public sociology,” see Phil Gorski, 2013, “Beyond the Fact/Value Distinction: Ethical Naturalism and the Social Sciences,” Society, September/October, 50(5), pp. 543–553; Christian Smith, 2013, “Comparing Ethical Naturalism and ‘Public Sociology,’” Society, September/October, 50(5), pp. 598–601.
