Richard A Schoenherr
Biographic Data
| ID | 82104 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard A Schoenherr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard A |
| FAMILY NAME | Schoenherr |
| SIGNATURE | SCHOENHERR R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Racionalidad y control en las organizaciones complejas
El artículo repasa los diversos modelos teóricos de organizaciones, sugiriendo distintos tipos de racionalidad de organización adaptados a tres clases de control: directo, discreto, y completamente discreto. Se discuten las teorías que ejemplifican la interacción económica, política, social, y las perspectivas culturales. Las aplicaciones del control se muestran en la base de las investigaciones sobre el isomorfismo organizacional, la supervivenc…
Goodbye Father: The Celibate Male Priesthood and the Future of the Catholic Church
Goodbye Father: The Celibate Male Priesthood and the Future of the Catholic Church
Full Pews and Empty Altars: Demographics of the Priest Shortage in United States Catholic Dioceses
Full Pews and Empty Altars: Demographics of the Priest Shortage in United States Catholic Dioceses
The Roman Catholic Church faces a huge loss of diocesan priests in the United States. Constructing a census-registry of 36,000 priests from 1966 to 1984, and using life-table techniques, the authors foretell a dramatic future loss of priests, while predicting a rise in the churchgoing population
Full Pews and Empty Altars
Journal Article Full Pews and Empty Altars, by Richard A. Schoenherr and Lawrence A. Young. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993, xx + 437 pp. $65; $19.95 (paper) Get access Pierre Hegy Pierre Hegy Adelphi University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 55, Issue 3, Fall 1994, Pages 370–371, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712067 Published: 01 October 1994
The Changing Age Distribution and Theological Attitudes of Catholic Priests Revisited
Hoge et al. (1988) analyze the changing age distribution and theological attitudes of Catholic priests. They conclude that Schoenherr and Sorensen (1982) overestimated the number of older priests in 1985 and incorrectly projected a shift toward conservative attitudes between 1970 and 1985. Based upon newly available data, we conclude that Schoenherr and Sorensen did not overestimate the number of older priests. We also argue that Hoge et al. did …
Quitting the Clergy: Resignations in the Roman Catholic Priesthood
As the Catholic Church continues to grow in membership size, its internal political economy suffers sustained loss of clergy manpower. Resignations from the priestly ranks is a major component of the decline. We present here demographic data from priest population registers, created from a random sample of 86 U.S. dioceses, which document high to moderate resignation rates from 1966 through 1984. Further descriptive analysis shows that a typical …
Demographic Transitions in Religious Organizations: A Comparative Study of Priest Decline in Roman Catholic Dioceses
Our aim is to adapt the theory of the demographic transition to the analysis of social change in religious organizations. Assuming the demographic transition of the clergy to be the driving force for pervasive structural change in the Roman Catholic church, we analyze the component processes of the transition as it unfolds over eight decades and document its consequences for changing the size and age distribution of the clergy population. The dat…
Power and Authority in Organized Religion: Disaggregating the Phenomenological Core
Journal Article Power and Authority in Organized Religion: Disaggregating the Phenomenological Core Get access Richard A. Schoenherr Richard A. Schoenherr University of WisconsinMadison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 47, Issue Special_Issue, March 1987, Pages 52–71, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711652 Published: 01 March 1987
Social Change in Religious Organizations: Consequences of Clergy Decline in the U.S. Catholic Church
Using time series data from a sample of 59 Catholic dioceses and cross-sectional data on 3045 priests, we estimate population parameters for entrance, exit, and growth rates and for the age distribution of U.S. diocesan priests from 1966–73. Three series of population projections are made to 2000. A demographic transition is dramatically reducing the size of the clergy, and altering the age and normative structures of the church toward an older, …
Psychological Distress and Patient Satisfaction
Psychologically distressed patients and clients of health care and social service organizations are found to report somewhat more dissatisfaction with services than do the nondistressed. Four explanations for this relationship are examined: 1) the psychologically distressed are generally dissatisfied; 2) service providers react negatively to the psychologically distressed; 3) psychologically distressed patients are dissatisfied when service provi…
Organization Effects on Client Satisfaction with Humaneness of Service
The relative effects of organization and individual attributes on consumer satisfaction with humaneness of service are examined in a community survey of 417 staff members and 411 patients and clients at 11 health and human service organizations. Regression analysis reveals that after the influence of patientIclient characteristics, attitudes, experiences, and problems is controlledfor, certain organization conditions, including the absence of bur…
Organizational Status Attainment of Religious Professionals
Role Commitment Processes and the American Catholic Priesthood
In this article we develop a general model for explaining role commitment as a process in which continuing in the role depends on the net balance of its rewards and costs. With an eight-variable path model we can account for half the variance in the decisions of a sample of 3,045 American Catholic priests to stay in or leave the ministry. The causal analysis shows that the cost of celibacy is currently a priest's principal consideration in the co…
Catholicism, Social Control, and Modernization in Latin America
The Structure of Organizations
The Structure of Organizations
The Structure of Organizations
The Structure of Organizations
The Structure of Organizations
Organisation and Bureaucracy: An Analysis of Modern Theories. Nicos P. Mouzelis Systems of Organization: The Control of Task and Sentient Boundaries. E. J. Miller , A. K. Rice Organization and Environ…
Role Commitment Processes and the American Catholic Priesthood
In this article we develop a general model for explaining role commitment as a process in which continuing in the role depends on the net balance of its rewards and costs. With an eight-variable path model we can account for half the variance in the decisions of a sample of 3,045 American Catholic priests to stay in or leave the ministry. The causal analysis shows that the cost of celibacy is currently a priest's principal consideration in the co…
Organization Effects on Client Satisfaction with Humaneness of Service
The relative effects of organization and individual attributes on consumer satisfaction with humaneness of service are examined in a community survey of 417 staff members and 411 patients and clients at 11 health and human service organizations. Regression analysis reveals that after the influence of patientIclient characteristics, attitudes, experiences, and problems is controlledfor, certain organization conditions, including the absence of bur…
The Structure of Organizations
The Changing Age Distribution and Theological Attitudes of Catholic Priests Revisited
Hoge et al. (1988) analyze the changing age distribution and theological attitudes of Catholic priests. They conclude that Schoenherr and Sorensen (1982) overestimated the number of older priests in 1985 and incorrectly projected a shift toward conservative attitudes between 1970 and 1985. Based upon newly available data, we conclude that Schoenherr and Sorensen did not overestimate the number of older priests. We also argue that Hoge et al. did …
Power and Authority in Organized Religion: Disaggregating the Phenomenological Core
Journal Article Power and Authority in Organized Religion: Disaggregating the Phenomenological Core Get access Richard A. Schoenherr Richard A. Schoenherr University of WisconsinMadison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 47, Issue Special_Issue, March 1987, Pages 52–71, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711652 Published: 01 March 1987
Demographic Transitions in Religious Organizations: A Comparative Study of Priest Decline in Roman Catholic Dioceses
Our aim is to adapt the theory of the demographic transition to the analysis of social change in religious organizations. Assuming the demographic transition of the clergy to be the driving force for pervasive structural change in the Roman Catholic church, we analyze the component processes of the transition as it unfolds over eight decades and document its consequences for changing the size and age distribution of the clergy population. The dat…
The Structure of Organizations
Social Change in Religious Organizations: Consequences of Clergy Decline in the U.S. Catholic Church
Using time series data from a sample of 59 Catholic dioceses and cross-sectional data on 3045 priests, we estimate population parameters for entrance, exit, and growth rates and for the age distribution of U.S. diocesan priests from 1966–73. Three series of population projections are made to 2000. A demographic transition is dramatically reducing the size of the clergy, and altering the age and normative structures of the church toward an older, …
Organisation and Bureaucracy: An Analysis of Modern Theories. Nicos P. Mouzelis Systems of Organization: The Control of Task and Sentient Boundaries. E. J. Miller , A. K. Rice Organization and Environ…
The Structure of Organizations
The Structure of Organizations
The Structure of Organizations
The Structure of Organizations
Catholicism, Social Control, and Modernization in Latin America
The Structure of Organizations
Role Commitment Processes and the American Catholic Priesthood
In this article we develop a general model for explaining role commitment as a process in which continuing in the role depends on the net balance of its rewards and costs. With an eight-variable path model we can account for half the variance in the decisions of a sample of 3,045 American Catholic priests to stay in or leave the ministry. The causal analysis shows that the cost of celibacy is currently a priest's principal consideration in the co…
Organizational Status Attainment of Religious Professionals
Organization Effects on Client Satisfaction with Humaneness of Service
The relative effects of organization and individual attributes on consumer satisfaction with humaneness of service are examined in a community survey of 417 staff members and 411 patients and clients at 11 health and human service organizations. Regression analysis reveals that after the influence of patientIclient characteristics, attitudes, experiences, and problems is controlledfor, certain organization conditions, including the absence of bur…
Social Change in Religious Organizations: Consequences of Clergy Decline in the U.S. Catholic Church
Using time series data from a sample of 59 Catholic dioceses and cross-sectional data on 3045 priests, we estimate population parameters for entrance, exit, and growth rates and for the age distribution of U.S. diocesan priests from 1966–73. Three series of population projections are made to 2000. A demographic transition is dramatically reducing the size of the clergy, and altering the age and normative structures of the church toward an older, …
Psychological Distress and Patient Satisfaction
Psychologically distressed patients and clients of health care and social service organizations are found to report somewhat more dissatisfaction with services than do the nondistressed. Four explanations for this relationship are examined: 1) the psychologically distressed are generally dissatisfied; 2) service providers react negatively to the psychologically distressed; 3) psychologically distressed patients are dissatisfied when service provi…
Power and Authority in Organized Religion: Disaggregating the Phenomenological Core
Journal Article Power and Authority in Organized Religion: Disaggregating the Phenomenological Core Get access Richard A. Schoenherr Richard A. Schoenherr University of WisconsinMadison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 47, Issue Special_Issue, March 1987, Pages 52–71, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711652 Published: 01 March 1987
Demographic Transitions in Religious Organizations: A Comparative Study of Priest Decline in Roman Catholic Dioceses
Our aim is to adapt the theory of the demographic transition to the analysis of social change in religious organizations. Assuming the demographic transition of the clergy to be the driving force for pervasive structural change in the Roman Catholic church, we analyze the component processes of the transition as it unfolds over eight decades and document its consequences for changing the size and age distribution of the clergy population. The dat…
Quitting the Clergy: Resignations in the Roman Catholic Priesthood
As the Catholic Church continues to grow in membership size, its internal political economy suffers sustained loss of clergy manpower. Resignations from the priestly ranks is a major component of the decline. We present here demographic data from priest population registers, created from a random sample of 86 U.S. dioceses, which document high to moderate resignation rates from 1966 through 1984. Further descriptive analysis shows that a typical …
The Changing Age Distribution and Theological Attitudes of Catholic Priests Revisited
Hoge et al. (1988) analyze the changing age distribution and theological attitudes of Catholic priests. They conclude that Schoenherr and Sorensen (1982) overestimated the number of older priests in 1985 and incorrectly projected a shift toward conservative attitudes between 1970 and 1985. Based upon newly available data, we conclude that Schoenherr and Sorensen did not overestimate the number of older priests. We also argue that Hoge et al. did …
Full Pews and Empty Altars: Demographics of the Priest Shortage in United States Catholic Dioceses
The Roman Catholic Church faces a huge loss of diocesan priests in the United States. Constructing a census-registry of 36,000 priests from 1966 to 1984, and using life-table techniques, the authors foretell a dramatic future loss of priests, while predicting a rise in the churchgoing population
Full Pews and Empty Altars
Journal Article Full Pews and Empty Altars, by Richard A. Schoenherr and Lawrence A. Young. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993, xx + 437 pp. $65; $19.95 (paper) Get access Pierre Hegy Pierre Hegy Adelphi University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 55, Issue 3, Fall 1994, Pages 370–371, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712067 Published: 01 October 1994
Full Pews and Empty Altars: Demographics of the Priest Shortage in United States Catholic Dioceses
Goodbye Father: The Celibate Male Priesthood and the Future of the Catholic Church
Goodbye Father: The Celibate Male Priesthood and the Future of the Catholic Church
Racionalidad y control en las organizaciones complejas
El artículo repasa los diversos modelos teóricos de organizaciones, sugiriendo distintos tipos de racionalidad de organización adaptados a tres clases de control: directo, discreto, y completamente discreto. Se discuten las teorías que ejemplifican la interacción económica, política, social, y las perspectivas culturales. Las aplicaciones del control se muestran en la base de las investigaciones sobre el isomorfismo organizacional, la supervivenc…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Catholicism and Religious Studies (6 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Complex Systems and Decision Making (4 works) · Demography (4 works)