Doctoral Dissertation Research in Sociology

这是一项论文改进补助金。 该研究研究了源自祈祷团体的影响力，并延伸到团体之外的社会关系。 相当多的社会学理论将共识价值观视为社会的基础。 通过观察和访谈，PI 将调查在灵恩天主教仪式中建立的关系在多大程度上复制到参与者在教会之外的社会关系中。 调查人员期望发现皈依宗教后外部社会关系的变化，他们将探索这些关系在受访者生活中的发展。 结果可以检验一些将宗教形式与社会形式相关的假设，以及道德价值观在建立社会凝聚力方面的重要性。

This is a dissertation improvement grant. The research studies influences which originate in prayer groups, and extend to social relationships outside the group. Considerable theory in sociol- ogy identifies consensual values as fundamental to society. Through observations and interviews, PIs will investigate the extent to which relationships established in Charismatic Catholic ritual are replicated in participants' social relationships outside the church. Investigators expect to find changes in external social relationship following conversion to the reli- gion, and they will explore development of these relationships over respondents' lives. Results permit test of several hypothe- ses relating religious forms to social forms, and the signif- icance of moral values in building social cohesion.