Journal of Undergraduate Research
Keywords
diet coke, addiction, faith, human behavior, conditioned response
College
Humanities
Department
English
Abstract
Suppose a sociologist wants to conduct an inquiry into the relationship between addiction and religion. She has two options. She might collect information from addicted people of faith and faithful addicts, observe them and interview them, or she might – although no ethics board would approve this – attempt to instill both addiction and faith within a group of test subjects, and then observe the results. Kenneth Ketner, after C. S. Peirce and Walker Percy, proposes a third approach to such an inquiry, and it is this approach which I have taken.
Recommended Citation
Taylor, A. Arwen and Jorgensen, Dr. Bruce
(2013)
"The Diet Coke of the Masses: A Thought Experiment in Addiction and Faith,"
Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013:
Iss.
1, Article 719.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/719