Sociology Research Articles

La participation catholique dans le mouvement du renouveau charismatique

This paper reports a pilot study of " Catholic Pentecostals," or as they are now more commonly known, " Catholic Charismatics." The study is based on participant observation and interviews among Catholics from 3 prayer groups in Southern California. The study was completed in June, 1972. It forms the basis of continuing research for a dissertation. Catholic participation in the Charismatic Renewal is considered as a renewal movement in relation to the Catholic Church. The analysis seeks to discover tendencies experienced by Catholic charismatics with respect to participation in the Catholic Church, and the ways in which these tendencies are compatible or incompatible with aspects of the Catholic Church. To analyze tendencies experienced by Catholic charismatics, a typology developed by Ernst Troeltsch is employed. Socio logists are familiar with the church-sect typology associated with Trocltsch. Few are familiar with a third type elaborated by Troeltsch: mysticism. It is this third type, mysticism. that this writer has found fruitful in analyzing aspects of Catholic participation in the Charismatic Renewal. The outlook of a " typical " Catholic charismatic is des cribed, with the intention and hope that : first, important aspects of a participant's experience are accurately and contextually represented: and, secondly, essential features of participants outlook are shown to correspond to the mystical type. Finally, a comparison is made of aspects of participants' outlook (mystical type) in relation to the Catholic Church (church-type : sacraments, hierarchy). The points of com parison are : 1) relationship between sacramental baptism and " baptism in the Spirit;" 2) Eucharist ; 3) basis of authority. Such a comparison will make more explicit aspects of the relationship between Catholic participation in the Charismatic Renewal and membership in the Catholic Church.

Mass Belief Systems Revisited: Political Change and Attitude Structure

* This paper owes a great debt to my students in the National Opinion Research Center Training program, who did much to rekindle my interest in ideology. I would also like to thank Sidney Verba and Kenneth Prewitt for their intellectual contributions at various stages. The first draft of the paper was written while I was a research Fulbright Fellow at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. I would like to express my appreciation to the Fulbright Foundation for support during this period and to the University of Leiden for supporting the research. Additional support for myself and for the research was provided by the National Science Foundation under Grant GS 3155 and the Twentieth Century Fund. The data reported in this article come from seven separate surveys and the organization and presentation was a mammoth job in data management. This task could not have been accomplished without the efforts of Carol Ann Lugtigheid, Eric Lugtigheid, John R. Petrocik, Jaap Rozema, and Jaap van Poelgeest.

The Sociology of the Professions

The Sociology of the Professions

Growth of Periodicals and Obsolescence of Articles in Periodicals: A Case Study in Sociology

A study on the growth in number of the periodicals in Sociology, Social Service and Welfare, and Population is presented. The growth in the number of significant contributions in the fields mentioned above is also given. The respective values of the Ageing Factor, Half-life, Mean-life, Utility factor and Obsolescence factor of the articles in the periodical in Sociology are determined.

Criteria for “State of the Field” Articles

(1974). Criteria for “State of the Field” Articles. The Sociological Quarterly: Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 322-462.

Residence and Student Life: A Sociological Inquiry into Residence and Higher Education.

Residence and Student Life: A Sociological Inquiry into Residence and Higher Education.

Graduates: The Sociology of an Elite.R. K. Kelsall , Anne Poole , Annette Kuhn

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsGraduates: The Sociology of an Elite. R. K. Kelsall , Anne Poole , Annette Kuhn Oliver FultonOliver Fulton Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 79, Number 6May, 1974 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/225743 Views: 1Total views on this site Copyright 1974 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Class, Codes and Control (Vol. 2, Applied Studies Towards a Sociology of Language)

Class, Codes and Control (Vol. 2, Applied Studies Towards a Sociology of Language)

Workers on the Move: The Sociology of Relocation

Workers on the Move: The Sociology of Relocation

Sociology of Reading: Social and Cultural Factors

(1974). Sociology of Reading: Social and Cultural Factors. Reading World: Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 318-333.

Sociology of sunrise or sociology of sunset?

Sociology of sunrise or sociology of sunset?

Index to Soviet Sociology, Volume XI1 (Summer 1973-Spring 1974)

Index to Soviet Sociology, Volume XI1 (Summer 1973-Spring 1974)

Putting Sociology to Work —

Putting Sociology to Work —

The Sociology of Art

The Sociology of Art

The Sociology of Art

The Sociology of Art

Semiology and Sociology

Semiology and Sociology

Irrigation Development in Bangladesh

Its location at the confluence of two of the world’s biggest rivers, and its 80 in (2,000 mm) annual monsoon rainfall, make Bangladesh one of the wettest countries on earth. Irrigation is still required, however, to permit increased cropping during the dry winter season. Temperatures during this period are high enough, and there are enough good soils to support a goal of 5,000,000 acres (2,000,000 ha) to be irrigated by 1978. Excellent aquifers underlie more than half the country at depths less than 300 ft (100 m) and, elsewhere, surface water sources abound in the form of streams, slough, and rivers. There is now a very clear need for creative engineering to identify engineering approaches which will be more appropriate in terms of technology, economics, and sociology. This paper presents the problem, underlines its complexity, invites suggestions as to possible solution, and requests information regarding specifications, performance, and cost of techniques in similar situations elsewhere.

Cultic Aspects of Sociology: A Speculative Essay

It will be the major task of this paper to trace some of the consequences of characterizing the sociological discipline as an 'occupation'. It will be argued that utilizing the conception of 'occupation' in a sensitizing or orientational fashion (see Blumer, I969) in relation to what has been variously referred to as 'the profession of sociology', 'the sociological enterprise', 'the discipline of sociology' leads to the observation of activities within the discipline which are 'cultic' in character. This depiction leads to a number of hypotheses about the nature of sociological inquiry and the variety of manners in which it is conducted.

Academic Freedom and Higher Education in England

As an object of sociological inquiry academic freedom, we suggest, must be distinguished from philosophical discussions of freedom itself. Ben-David and Collinsl have observed that 'objective academic freedom is a myth, since there are always some people who authoritatively define what its limits are'. Academic freedom does not therefore mean freedom from social expectations but exposure to expectations which have certain distinctive characteristics. First, the expectations apply only to individuals who occupy certain positions; in short, they constitute a role. Second, and unlike many role expectations, the demands are not for conformity and acceptance, but for rigorous scrutiny and criticism. Arnold Rose2 refers to the fashion designer and the scientist as examples of such roles and no doubt a niche somewhere between the two can be found for most academics:

Nurse sociologists' contributions to nursing.

Nurse sociologists' contributions to nursing.