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- Title
THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF RELIGIOUS AND ETHNORELIGIOUS GROUPS IN A METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY.
- Authors
Laumann, Edward O.
- Abstract
The relatively new technique of smallest space analysis is used to analyze the formation of friendship relationships among 15 religious and 27 ethnoreligious groups. Three facets appear to account for the relative proximities of the 15 religious groups. First, there is confirmation of the well-known hypothesis that the American social structure is divided into three religious groupings: Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish. Second, religious out group selection of friends follows the lines of similarity of socioeconomic status. And thirdly, similarity of religious beliefs and styles of worship may also be a factor, but some caution in accepting the relevance of this facet must be noted because of its relatively high association with the second facet, socioeconomic status. In order to assess the possible role of ethnic considerations in modifying this structure, we combined ethnic and religious attributes of respondents and their friends into 27 ethnoreligious groups. We found that the structure is differentiated into the three broad religious groupings and, within these groupings, along socioeconomic status lines; moreover, ethnic differences were also playing a role in channeling friendship formation.
- Subjects
SOCIAL structure; INTERETHNIC friendship; RELIGIOUS groups; CULTURAL relations; SOCIAL status; BELIEF &; doubt
- Publication
American Sociological Review, 1969, Vol 34, Issue 2, p182
- ISSN
0003-1224
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2092176