Church Involvement and the Comfort Thesis in Alberta
Glock, Ringer, and Babbie have argued that people who become involved in church are seeking a comfortable refuge from the deprivations associated with being old, female, unmarried, or having a small income or little education. The present research tests this thesis using data from a provincewide sam...
| Published in: | Journal for the scientific study of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[1974]
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Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Lutheranism
B Older Adults B Anglicanism B Catholicism B Sectarianism B Church Attendance B Composite indices B Cults |
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| Summary: | Glock, Ringer, and Babbie have argued that people who become involved in church are seeking a comfortable refuge from the deprivations associated with being old, female, unmarried, or having a small income or little education. The present research tests this thesis using data from a provincewide sample of adults in Alberta. No support for the thesis is found among any denominational grouping. When the thesis is broken down into its component hypotheses, however, the pattern of relationships that emerges is one that has long been familiar to sociologists. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-5906 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Charles Y. Glock and Earl R. Babbie Reply to Charles W. Hobart (1975)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1384609 |