Methodology for the Examination of the Function of Values and Interests in the Process of Social Change
This paper reports the methods used to investigate a problem in social change. In order to investigate how internalized social values and interests affect the direction of the historical process two instruments were developed. The first purports to measure general orientations to change and to resis...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1964
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1964, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 75-90 |
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| Summary: | This paper reports the methods used to investigate a problem in social change. In order to investigate how internalized social values and interests affect the direction of the historical process two instruments were developed. The first purports to measure general orientations to change and to resistance to change along with preferences for making choices in terms of general values or special interests; the second investigates styles of behavior in response to pressures to change when the pressures are historically significant and the respondents playing significant roles in the situation facing change. The instruments were tested on a sample of priests from the Boston Archdiocese where, along with all parish structures in the Church today, roles are being pressured toward change of behavior long institutionalized in the areas of command-obedience relations, social responsibility, independence training for children, respect for the intellectual life and motivational awareness. This paper handles specifically the methodological problems of operational-izing the abstractions “values” and “interests,” and the use of historically significant stimuli in place of artificial laboratory situations. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3709759 |