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Researching a traditional territorial organisation: analogy, verstehen and the sociological imagination

Christopher Harris, Richard Startup

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Volume: 18, Issue: 9/10, Pages: 72 - 93

Swansea University Authors: Christopher Harris, Richard Startup

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DOI (Published version): 10.1108/01443339810788524

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Reports on a study of the state of the (Anglican) Church in Wales, which investigated the Church in Wales as a sociological institution through attitudes held by the clergy and lay members of the Church. Asserts that churches are institutional associational groups with rational‐bureaucratic forms of...

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Published in: International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
ISSN: 0144-333X
Published: Emerald 1998
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