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Ordaining Women: The Diffusion of an Organizational Innovation

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Chaves, M
Published in: The American Journal of Sociology
1996

Why do denominations vary in the extent to which they resist ordaining women? Extensive loose coupling between formal policy and actual practice concerning female access to positions within religious organizations highlights the symbolic importance of rules about women's ordination. This paper focuses on these rules via an event-history analysis of U.S. Christian denominations' official adoption of women's ordination. The likelihood of a denomination beginning to ordain women is influenced by external political and institutional pressures, by cultural boundaries and network connections within the denominational population, and by internal organizational characterics.

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The American Journal of Sociology

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0002-9602

Publication Date

1996

Volume

101

Issue

4

Start / End Page

840 / 873

Publisher

UNIV CHICAGO PRESS

Related Subject Headings

  • Sociology
  • 4410 Sociology
  • 1608 Sociology
 

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Chaves, M. (1996). Ordaining Women: The Diffusion of an Organizational Innovation. The American Journal of Sociology, 101(4), 840–873. https://doi.org/10.1086/230782
Chaves, M. “Ordaining Women: The Diffusion of an Organizational Innovation.” The American Journal of Sociology 101, no. 4 (1996): 840–73. https://doi.org/10.1086/230782.
Chaves M. Ordaining Women: The Diffusion of an Organizational Innovation. The American Journal of Sociology. 1996;101(4):840–73.
Chaves, M. “Ordaining Women: The Diffusion of an Organizational Innovation.” The American Journal of Sociology, vol. 101, no. 4, UNIV CHICAGO PRESS, 1996, pp. 840–73. Manual, doi:10.1086/230782.
Chaves M. Ordaining Women: The Diffusion of an Organizational Innovation. The American Journal of Sociology. UNIV CHICAGO PRESS; 1996;101(4):840–873.
Journal cover image

Published In

The American Journal of Sociology

DOI

ISSN

0002-9602

Publication Date

1996

Volume

101

Issue

4

Start / End Page

840 / 873

Publisher

UNIV CHICAGO PRESS

Related Subject Headings

  • Sociology
  • 4410 Sociology
  • 1608 Sociology