Item Detail
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5021
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4
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1
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English
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The Urban Threat to Mormon Norms
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Rural Sociology
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December 1959
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24
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355-61
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"Using Mormon bishops' judgments of their church members' orthodoxy and claimed abstinence in the home from forbidden items of diet (tea, coffee, tobacco, liquor, and beer) as criteria, it was found that random samples of rural Mormon families were significantly more orthodox than were those of urban Mormon families. Non-Mormon rural families sampled did not differ significantly from non-Mormon urban families except in claimed possession of liquor and beer in their homes, the rural families claiming greater abstinence. Scale analysis revealed high reproducibility among both rural and urban responses, but the rural reproducibility coefficients were slightly higher. Rural responses also fell into considerably fewer scale types, indicating that rural respondents were less heterogeneous as well as more orthodox than were urban respondents. These findings indicate that as Mormons become more urbanized, the current trend, they may differ less and less from their non-Mormon neighbors." [Abstract taken from article]