The Congregation as a Station for Social Integration - an Analysis of Congregants' Personal Networks with an Interpretation using Giddens' Theory of Structuration (original) (raw)

Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions, 2019

Abstract

This is a study of personal networks from a sample of two contrasting congregations in Northern Ireland: one is Anglican, historic and rural, the other newly formed, independent and evangelical. Amongst the findings is that each congregation was found to be differentiated by its social attributes such as SEC, age, residency, rather than as a result of simple agency ion choice. Giddens' Structuration Theory was found to be a useful application for the the theoretical animation of these results, especially in how the congregation acts as a station for congregants, integrating the household with the mess level of social structure

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