11. The organizational vitality of conservative protestantism

Abstract

I argue that two insights of organizational sociology enhance standing explanations of the vitality of conservative Protestant (CP) faiths. I outline the limits of rational choice and subcultural identity approaches to CP vitality, and show how Stinchcombe's early (1965) claim about the organizational production of solidarity, and the institutionalist notion of the field, help to redress those limitations.

Citation

Stevens, M.L. (2002), "11. The organizational vitality of conservative protestantism", Lounsbury, M. and Ventresca, M.J. (Ed.) Social Structure and Organizations Revisited (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 19), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 337-360. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0733-558X(02)19011-2