Between sacred and secular: research and theory on quasi-religion
In: Religion and the social order 4
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In: Religion and the social order 4
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS ; a journal of political behavior, ethics, and policy, Band 13, Heft 2, S. 313-314
ISSN: 1471-5457
In: Politics and the life sciences: PLS, Band 13, Heft 2, S. 313-314
ISSN: 0730-9384
In: Comparative political studies: CPS, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 269-278
ISSN: 1552-3829
In: Comparative political studies: CPS, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 213-238
ISSN: 1552-3829
In: Sociological analysis: SA ; a journal in the sociology of religion, Band 38, Heft 2, S. 115
ISSN: 2325-7873
In: Sociology of religion, Band 54, Heft 1, S. 83
ISSN: 1759-8818
In: Sociological analysis: SA ; a journal in the sociology of religion, Band 50, Heft 1, S. 41
ISSN: 2325-7873
In: Sociological focus: quarterly journal of the North Central Sociological Association, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 45-59
ISSN: 2162-1128
In: Sociological focus: quarterly journal of the North Central Sociological Association, Band 17, Heft 4, S. 305-323
ISSN: 2162-1128
In: Sociological inquiry: the quarterly journal of the International Sociology Honor Society, Band 54, Heft 3, S. 260-278
ISSN: 1475-682X
The transformation of personal identities is an implicit or explicit goal of many organizations, including "new" religious movements, self‐help groups, "deprogramming" enterprises, rehabilitation programs, and others. This essay describes and accounts for one important structural feature of identity transformation organizations (ITOs): encapsulation. Three types of encapsulation are described–physical, social, and ideological–and reasons why different ITOs emphasize certain types of encapsulation rather than others are suggested. Finally, we discuss how the need for encapsulation may conflict with other organizational imperatives of ITOs and we discuss the implications of this organizational dilemma for the successful functioning of ITOs.
In: Qualitative sociology, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 5-28
ISSN: 1573-7837
In: Comparative population studies: CPoS ; open acess journal of the Federal Institute for Population Research = Zeitschrift für Bevölkerungsforschung, Band 48, S. 19-45
ISSN: 1869-8999
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all areas of our lives. Among other outcomes, the academic literature and popular media both discuss the potential effects of the pandemic on fertility. As fertility is an important determinant of population development and population forecasts are important for policy decisions and planning, we need to address to which extent fertility forecasts performed before the pandemic still apply. Using Monte Carlo forecasting based on principal components of fertility rates, we quantify the effects of the pandemic on fertility for 22 countries and discuss whether forecasts made prior to the pandemic need adjustment based on more recent data. Among the studied countries, 14 countries show no significant effect of the pandemic at all, while six countries have significantly lowered numbers of births in comparison to counterfactual trajectories that assume that past trends will hold. These countries are primarily in the Mediterranean and East Asia. For Finland and South Korea, there is statistical evidence for increased fertility in the early phases of the pandemic. In all cases with statistically significant fertility differentials caused by the pandemic, reproductive behavior normalized quickly. Therefore, we find no evidence for long-term effects of the pandemic on fertility, leading to the conclusion that pre-pandemic fertility forecasts still apply.
In: Journal of church and state: JCS, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 665-666
ISSN: 0021-969X