Armand L Mauss
Biographic Data
| ID | 5589847 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Armand L Mauss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Armand L |
| FAMILY NAME | Mauss |
| SIGNATURE | MAUSS A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Japanese Saints: Mormons in the Land of the Rising Sun By John P. Hoffmann Lexington Books. 2007. 230 pages. $70 cloth
Journal Article Japanese Saints: Mormons in the Land of the Rising Sun By John P. Hoffmann Lexington Books. 2007. 230 pages. $70 cloth Get access Armand L. Mauss Armand L. Mauss Washington State University (emeritus) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 87, Issue 3, March 2009, Pages 1697–1699, https://doi.org/10.1353/sof.0.0176 Published: 01 March 2009
Chapter Four. The Emergence Of Mormon Studies In The Social Sciences
This chapter demonstrates that anyone who undertakes to teach a course on Mormons, at least in the United States, will face no shortage of scholarly literature on which to base such a course. Much of this literature is obviously historical in nature, rather than purely sociological or social-scientific. Courses in Mormon Studies are being taught in various universities, both public and private, and at least two important universities have establi…
All Abraham's Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
All Abraham's Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
Journal Article All Abraham's Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage, by Armand L. Mauss. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2003, 360 pp.; $36.95 cloth Get access Marcus H. Martins Marcus H. Martins Brigham Young UniversityHawaii Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 4, Winter 2004, Pages 423–424, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712327 Published: …
All Abraham's Children: Changing Mormon Concepts of Race and Lineage
Attaining 'a Sophisticated Maturity: A Brief History of theJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion
An historical overview of theJournal for the Scientific Study of Religionconsiders both the aspirations of the founders and the extent to which those aspirations have been realized, modified, or exceeded. Appropriate secondary sources are reviewed for an understanding of the intellectual and organizational contexts giving rise to theJournaland for a qualitative consideration of its earliest decades. Then we introduce quantitative data derived fro…
The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation
Journal Article The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation, by Armand L. Mauss. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994, xvii + 257 pp. $29.95 Get access Merlin Brinkerhoff Merlin Brinkerhoff University of Calgary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 58, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 97–98, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712112 Published: 01 January 1997
The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation
The Impact of Feminism and Religious Involvement on Sentiment toward God
The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation
The Amish Struggle with Modernity
The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation
past few decades have witnessed an increasing reaction of Mormons against their own successful assimilation, Armand Mauss writes in The Angel and Beehive, though trying to recover some of cultural tension and special identity associated with their earlier 'sect-like' history. This retrenchment among Mormons is main theme of Mauss's book, which analyzes last forty years of history from a sociological perspective. At official ecclesiastical level, …
Recommendations to Aspiring Authors
Journal Article Recommendations to Aspiring Authors Get access Armand L. Mauss Armand L. Mauss Washington State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 55, Issue 4, Winter 1994, Pages 481–486, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711984 Published: 01 December 1994
Strictly Speaking: Kelley's Quandary and the Vineyard Christian Fellowship
Dan Kelley (1972) recognized a difference between social strength in religious organizations (reflected in member commitment, discipline, and evangelical zeal) and strictness (reflected in absolutism, conformity, and fanaticism). Yet he deplored the apparent fact that strength and stricness are inevitably concomitant, or at least highly correlated. This study offers the Vineyard Christian Fellowship as a counterexample, in which operational measu…
Mormons and Jews: Early Mormon Theologies of Israel
Science, Religion, and Mormon Cosmology
If cosmology connotes an understanding of the structure of both a physical and a transcendent universe, contends Erich Robert Paul, it is virtually impossible to understand Mormonism outside the dimensions of cosmological thinking. This unique study examines how Mormonism shaped its cosmic vision by using and developing cosmological ideas, and what this process says about science, religion, and Mormonism itself
Yoking Science and Religion: The Life and Thought of Ralph Wendell Burhoe
Saints and Seriousness: A Reply to Bibby and Brinkerhoff
Living in the Children of God. David E. Van Zandt
Church, Sect, and Scripture: The Protestant Bible and Mormon Sectarian Retrenchment
In light of (a) recent work by Stark and Bainbridge on new religions, (b) some social-psychological theories, and (c) recent changes in the Mormon religion, this essay proposes a modification in the traditional sect-church model of unidirectional change in the natural history of new sects. The twentieth century history of the Mormon religion is then reviewed briefly to illustrate the need for this theoretical modification to fit cases like that o…
Saints and Seekers: Sources of Recruitment to the Vineyard Christian Fellowship
Rodney Stark: The Berkeley Years
Assimilation and Ambivalence: The Mormon Reaction to Americanization
Mormonism in Conflict: The Nauvoo Years
Conversion or Commitment? A Reassessment of the Snow and Machalek Approach to the Study of Conversion
Snow and Machalek (1983; 1984) have pointed to the importance of language in understanding the conversion process. In particular, they have identified four characteristic of the accounts converts give about their conversion experience. After a brief review of these indicators, and of the Snow and Machalek approach more generally, we offer a critique and an alternative interpretation of the part played by language in the conversion process, and by…
Sample Bias Resulting From a Requirement for Written Parental Consent
Journal Article Sample Bias Resulting from a Requirement for Written Parental Consent Get access KATHLEEN A. KEARNEY, KATHLEEN A. KEARNEY Kathleen A. Kearney was a doctoral candidate at Washington State University when this work was completed; she is now self-employed in Dublin, Ireland. Ronald H. Hopkins is Professor and Chair of Psychology at Washington State University. Armand L. Mauss is Professor of Sociology at Washington State University. …
Party Systems, Party Organizations, and the Politics of the New Masses
Dimensions of Religious Defection
Conversion or Commitment? A Reassessment of the Snow and Machalek Approach to the Study of Conversion
Snow and Machalek (1983; 1984) have pointed to the importance of language in understanding the conversion process. In particular, they have identified four characteristic of the accounts converts give about their conversion experience. After a brief review of these indicators, and of the Snow and Machalek approach more generally, we offer a critique and an alternative interpretation of the part played by language in the conversion process, and by…
Les ' Jesus Freaks ' et le retour à la respectabilité
This paper postulates that (1) the Jesus movement, as a movement, is in the process of routinization ; and that (2) the main function of the movement for the individual members has been that of providing a ' waystation to respectability' for a cohort of stigmatized youth, who are more recently in the process of being reabsorbed back into the system, partly through membership in established pentecostal churches. The data come from structured and u…
Padding the Revolving Door: An Initial Assessment of the Uniform Alcoholism and Intoxication Treatment Act in Practice
The widespread adoption of the Uniform Alcoholism and Intoxication Treatment Act raises important questions of theory and of policy. Because the Act is partly a move toward official medicalization and decriminalization of public drunkenness, it raises a theoretical question about the applicability of the “sick role” to public inebriates. It also raises policy questions about the differential efficacy of a medical vs. a criminal approach to the so…
"Religion and the "Right to Life: Correlates of Opposition to Abortion
The small amount of literature on the relationship between religion and attitudes on abortion does not give us a clear indication of the importance of religion in determining attitudes on abortion. But literature on political attitudes indicates that opposition to easy abortion is associated with political conservatism. There is another body of literature indicating that religious and political conservatism/liberalism are highly correlated. The h…
On Being Strangled by the Stars and Stripes: The New Left, the Old Left, and the Natural History of American Radical Movements
Radical movements such as those of the New and Old Lefts are a particular type of social movement whose genesis, composition, and morphology can be explained by extant theory and research. The fate (or career) of radical movements in this kind of society, however, is a special process resulting from the twin forces of co‐optation and repression which, in varying combinations, define the relationship between the radical movement and its host socie…
The Lost Promise of Reconciliation: New Left vs. Old Left
The dialogue between the Old and New Left during the past decade has resulted less in reconciliation than in rupture. This process has made quite clear and explicit the chief differences between the two movements, which are only roughly divided along generational lines. The differences discussed here are of four general kinds: (a) social roots and orientations, (b) political positions, (c) strategy and tactics, and (d) representative personalitie…
Strictly Speaking: Kelley's Quandary and the Vineyard Christian Fellowship
Dan Kelley (1972) recognized a difference between social strength in religious organizations (reflected in member commitment, discipline, and evangelical zeal) and strictness (reflected in absolutism, conformity, and fanaticism). Yet he deplored the apparent fact that strength and stricness are inevitably concomitant, or at least highly correlated. This study offers the Vineyard Christian Fellowship as a counterexample, in which operational measu…
Attaining 'a Sophisticated Maturity: A Brief History of theJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion
An historical overview of theJournal for the Scientific Study of Religionconsiders both the aspirations of the founders and the extent to which those aspirations have been realized, modified, or exceeded. Appropriate secondary sources are reviewed for an understanding of the intellectual and organizational contexts giving rise to theJournaland for a qualitative consideration of its earliest decades. Then we introduce quantitative data derived fro…
The Impact of Feminism and Religious Involvement on Sentiment toward God
Draughts and drunks: The contributions of taverns and bars to excessive drinking in America
This paper assesses the contributions made by the frequent patronage of taverns and bars to excessive drinking in the United States. All previous studies that have considered the relation between tavern patronage and drinking behavior have assumed the latter to be the independent variable, but without any particular theoretical explanation beyond "common sense." This paper reverses that causal reasoning and shows further that the factors usually …
Waves from Watergate: Evidence concerning the Impact of the Watergate Scandal upon Political Legitimacy and Social Control
Thus spoke an unnamed psychologist during an interview in 1973 as Watergate revelations began to unfold with increasingly scandalous impact. While he was apparently speaking to some extent from a professional point of view, he was also expressing conventional wisdom of period according to nearly all of news commentators and political pundits as well: namely, that Watergate episode had disastrously undermined public respect and confidence in gover…
Saints and Seekers: Sources of Recruitment to the Vineyard Christian Fellowship
Social Problems
Mormon Semitism and Anti-Semitism
This paper investigates the relation between the attitudes of Mormons toward modern Jews and the belief in the unique Mormon doctrine of “Semitic identification,” which holds that Mormons and Jews literally have the same ethnic origin. The study is based upon a purposive sample of 250 Mormons in the San Francisco Bay Area, who are compared to a larger sample of Catholics and Protestants in the same area, studied by Charles Y. Glock and Rodney Sta…
The Reluctant Right: Right-Wing Anti-Communism Among Libertarian University Students
Most studies of right-wing anti-Communism among students and others have assumed that phenomenon to be part of a general pattern of intolerance, based either upon certain psychological variables (e.g., the authoritarian personality) or upon social background factors, such as class or status. This paper considers right-wing anti-Communism in an otherwise highly tolerant student population-i.e. apart from intolerance generallyand suggests that cert…
Mormonism and Secular Attitudes toward Negroes
Mormonism and Secular Attitudes toward Negroes
The Reluctant Right: Right-Wing Anti-Communism Among Libertarian University Students
Most studies of right-wing anti-Communism among students and others have assumed that phenomenon to be part of a general pattern of intolerance, based either upon certain psychological variables (e.g., the authoritarian personality) or upon social background factors, such as class or status. This paper considers right-wing anti-Communism in an otherwise highly tolerant student population-i.e. apart from intolerance generallyand suggests that cert…
Mormon Semitism and Anti-Semitism
This paper investigates the relation between the attitudes of Mormons toward modern Jews and the belief in the unique Mormon doctrine of “Semitic identification,” which holds that Mormons and Jews literally have the same ethnic origin. The study is based upon a purposive sample of 250 Mormons in the San Francisco Bay Area, who are compared to a larger sample of Catholics and Protestants in the same area, studied by Charles Y. Glock and Rodney Sta…
Anticipatory Socialization toward College as a Factor in Adolescent Marijuana Use
This paper seeks to help explain why such a flagrant and heavily penalized form of deviance as marijuana use should occur among otherwise conforming middle-class youth. Finding most theories of deviance inappropriate to this particular phenomenon, the study employs the anticipatory socialization theory and tests the hypothesis that college-oriented high school students, perceiving marijuana use as part of a collegiate style of life, will be more …
Anticipatory Socialization toward College as a Factor in Adolescent Marijuana Use
Dimensions of Religious Defection
Party Systems, Party Organizations, and the Politics of the New Masses
On Being Strangled by the Stars and Stripes: The New Left, the Old Left, and the Natural History of American Radical Movements
Radical movements such as those of the New and Old Lefts are a particular type of social movement whose genesis, composition, and morphology can be explained by extant theory and research. The fate (or career) of radical movements in this kind of society, however, is a special process resulting from the twin forces of co‐optation and repression which, in varying combinations, define the relationship between the radical movement and its host socie…
The Lost Promise of Reconciliation: New Left vs. Old Left
The dialogue between the Old and New Left during the past decade has resulted less in reconciliation than in rupture. This process has made quite clear and explicit the chief differences between the two movements, which are only roughly divided along generational lines. The differences discussed here are of four general kinds: (a) social roots and orientations, (b) political positions, (c) strategy and tactics, and (d) representative personalitie…
Skidders and Their Servants: Variable Goals and Functions of the Skid Road Rescue Mission
Reginald W. Bibby, Armand L. Mauss, Skidders and Their Servants: Variable Goals and Functions of the Skid Road Rescue Mission, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Dec., 1974), pp. 421-436
Les ' Jesus Freaks ' et le retour à la respectabilité
This paper postulates that (1) the Jesus movement, as a movement, is in the process of routinization ; and that (2) the main function of the movement for the individual members has been that of providing a ' waystation to respectability' for a cohort of stigmatized youth, who are more recently in the process of being reabsorbed back into the system, partly through membership in established pentecostal churches. The data come from structured and u…
Social problems as social movements
Religion in Australia
Waves from Watergate: Evidence concerning the Impact of the Watergate Scandal upon Political Legitimacy and Social Control
Thus spoke an unnamed psychologist during an interview in 1973 as Watergate revelations began to unfold with increasingly scandalous impact. While he was apparently speaking to some extent from a professional point of view, he was also expressing conventional wisdom of period according to nearly all of news commentators and political pundits as well: namely, that Watergate episode had disastrously undermined public respect and confidence in gover…
"Religion and the "Right to Life: Correlates of Opposition to Abortion
The small amount of literature on the relationship between religion and attitudes on abortion does not give us a clear indication of the importance of religion in determining attitudes on abortion. But literature on political attitudes indicates that opposition to easy abortion is associated with political conservatism. There is another body of literature indicating that religious and political conservatism/liberalism are highly correlated. The h…
Social Problems
Padding the Revolving Door: An Initial Assessment of the Uniform Alcoholism and Intoxication Treatment Act in Practice
The widespread adoption of the Uniform Alcoholism and Intoxication Treatment Act raises important questions of theory and of policy. Because the Act is partly a move toward official medicalization and decriminalization of public drunkenness, it raises a theoretical question about the applicability of the “sick role” to public inebriates. It also raises policy questions about the differential efficacy of a medical vs. a criminal approach to the so…
Salvation and Survival on Skid Row: A Comment on Rooney
Mormonism and the American Experience
Draughts and drunks: The contributions of taverns and bars to excessive drinking in America
This paper assesses the contributions made by the frequent patronage of taverns and bars to excessive drinking in the United States. All previous studies that have considered the relation between tavern patronage and drinking behavior have assumed the latter to be the independent variable, but without any particular theoretical explanation beyond "common sense." This paper reverses that causal reasoning and shows further that the factors usually …
Sample Bias Resulting From a Requirement for Written Parental Consent
Journal Article Sample Bias Resulting from a Requirement for Written Parental Consent Get access KATHLEEN A. KEARNEY, KATHLEEN A. KEARNEY Kathleen A. Kearney was a doctoral candidate at Washington State University when this work was completed; she is now self-employed in Dublin, Ireland. Ronald H. Hopkins is Professor and Chair of Psychology at Washington State University. Armand L. Mauss is Professor of Sociology at Washington State University. …
Self-Generated Identification Codes for Anonymous Collection of Longitudinal Questionnaire Data
Self-Generated Identification Codes for Anonymous Collection of Longitudinal Questionnaire Data
The success of a self-generated identification code for linking longitudinal questionnaire data was examined. The matching procedure developed for linking questionnaires, including a simple technique to compensate for nonidentical codes, yielded a high success rate (92% linkage of cases over a one-month interval and 78% over a one-year interval) and very few incorrectly linked cases. The procedure worked equally well with elementary and high scho…
Sociological Perspectives on the Mormon Subculture
The rapid growth of the platform economy has provoked scholarly discussion of its consequences for the nature of work and employment. We identify four major themes in the literature on platform work and the underlying metaphors associated with each. ...Read More
Religion and Sexuality: Three American Communal Experiments of the Nineteenth Century. Lawrence Foster An Ordered Love: Sex Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Utopias-the Shakers, the Mormons, and the O…
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