American Jews and American Catholics: Two Types of Social Change
In the place of a static comparison of American Jews and Catholics, it is more useful to consider both populations in terms of a complex pattern of sequential social change. Four themes are compared in this way: immigration and ethnicity, social class and mobility, institutional separatism, and prob...
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| Language: | English |
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1965
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1965, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-17 |
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| Summary: | In the place of a static comparison of American Jews and Catholics, it is more useful to consider both populations in terms of a complex pattern of sequential social change. Four themes are compared in this way: immigration and ethnicity, social class and mobility, institutional separatism, and problems of minority group status and ethnic prejudice. In certain key respects, notably transition from the ethnic ghetto and accelerated upward mobility, Catholics are repeating the Jewish transit. But with respect to religious faith the difference is marked; Jewish peoplehood or social community has undergone many changes in its relationship to Judaic religion, while the Catholic ethnic groups have made many changes in social structure and in Church organization but have not altered the attachment to the core of faith itself. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3710627 |