Walter Broughton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3894286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Walter Broughton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Walter |
| FAMILY NAME | Broughton |
| SIGNATURE | BROUGHTON W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Marywood University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Measuring the Cohesion of Military Communities
Several trends affecting the military make the cohesion of installations increasingly problematic. At the same time, recent work in military sociology contends that greater attention should be paid to the integration of military units within the larger social entities that contain them. We report the results of a pretest conducted among 325 military personnel and spouses at an East Coast air base to construct a measure of base cohesion. A princip…
Resource Inequality and Accumulative Advantage: Stratification in the Ministry
Following accumulative advantage studies based on career performance in science, we demonstrate the generality of the phenomenon through a synthetic cohort analysis of Protestant clergy, using a composite measure of professional resources. These resources are distributed more unequally in older than in younger cohorts within a total sample drawn from 21 denominations and also within 7 denominational subsamples. This finding suggests the presence …
Religiosity and Opposition to Church Social Action: A Test of a Weberian Hypothesis
A Sociology of Religion
Theistic Conceptions in American Protestantism
A semantic differential administered to liberal, moderate, and conservative laity (N = 511) identified three dimensions of theistic imagery in which a traditional conception of God's goodness, mercy, and justice was dominant. The first dimension, traditional imagery, was strongly related to certainty of belief in God's existence and other orthodox Christian beliefs, as well as to devotionalism and ritual observances. It and certainty of orthodox …
Measuring the Cohesion of Military Communities
Several trends affecting the military make the cohesion of installations increasingly problematic. At the same time, recent work in military sociology contends that greater attention should be paid to the integration of military units within the larger social entities that contain them. We report the results of a pretest conducted among 325 military personnel and spouses at an East Coast air base to construct a measure of base cohesion. A princip…
Religiosity and Opposition to Church Social Action: A Test of a Weberian Hypothesis
A Sociology of Religion
Theistic Conceptions in American Protestantism
A semantic differential administered to liberal, moderate, and conservative laity (N = 511) identified three dimensions of theistic imagery in which a traditional conception of God's goodness, mercy, and justice was dominant. The first dimension, traditional imagery, was strongly related to certainty of belief in God's existence and other orthodox Christian beliefs, as well as to devotionalism and ritual observances. It and certainty of orthodox …
Religiosity and Opposition to Church Social Action: A Test of a Weberian Hypothesis
Resource Inequality and Accumulative Advantage: Stratification in the Ministry
Following accumulative advantage studies based on career performance in science, we demonstrate the generality of the phenomenon through a synthetic cohort analysis of Protestant clergy, using a composite measure of professional resources. These resources are distributed more unequally in older than in younger cohorts within a total sample drawn from 21 denominations and also within 7 denominational subsamples. This finding suggests the presence …
Measuring the Cohesion of Military Communities
Several trends affecting the military make the cohesion of installations increasingly problematic. At the same time, recent work in military sociology contends that greater attention should be paid to the integration of military units within the larger social entities that contain them. We report the results of a pretest conducted among 325 military personnel and spouses at an East Coast air base to construct a measure of base cohesion. A princip…
Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)